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Philosophizing: formative release of the happening of being. The setting up of truth ahead of individual truths, the transforming of traditional “truth.” (Cf. p. 36.)
Such release of the happening of being requires predominating clarity of the concept in its riches—this clarity in turn compels the opening through struggle of what cannot be comprehended.
Thus philosophizing effectuates the inner enhancement of both the happening of being and of Dasein in Dasein’s breadth and depth.
The release can be for us only one that repeats—in every postulation it already accepts “beings” and proceeds into their history—accordingly philosophy is in itself history—not only incidentally—but in its very conduct.
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Philosophical activity—discernible in what?
Whether such activity describes things and classifies opinions,
whether it improves the things handed down and displaces them,
whether it articulates and organizes everything knowable,
whether it grasps what is current (the situation!) and yet lags behind.
How all such undertakings must be justified from the outside— through the taking over of accomplishments in education, in “universal refinement,” in “world view,” and in “basic science.”
All such only superficial and subsequent outer “aspects.” (Cf. p. 21.)
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“Logic” (cf. p. 25).—A person whose Dasein is not attuned to the essence of beings as a whole and to their chasms and “grounding” does not need—and does not deserve—any “logic.” Such a one manages very well at all times with his “healthy” thinking. But one who exists in the essence must demand “logic” for himself. For it is—rightly understood and not as formal technique—the power and intrinsic exercise of the liberation of truth.
Therefore, perhaps a correct lecture course on logic—not the usual old “dead” logic which never did live—for the most serious and “gifted”—not for the ungifted and those without resource in thinking. They are past help.