37b
Question of being: not to make a transcription of “beings” and do so from the usual problematic perspective—instead, to found beyng in the leap.
38
The world is now out of joint; the earth is a field of destruction. What beyng “means” no one knows.
Can we at all know it?
And if yes, should we know it?
And if yes to that, how must it become knowable?
39
A history of philosophy is to be presented as the history of the great isolation.
40
The decisive basic movement in the affairs of thought: the highest exertion toward the impossibility of leaping over one’s own shadow—to build originarily on a newly laid foundation.
41
The fact that we often enough think contrary to our own intention and do not always maintain the correct levels or measure out the necessary carrying distances.
Much exercise is required before you become sure of the courage for your own necessity.
42
“Worldview”—a late word—originating from the place where one looks back and classifies—calculates in “types.” Nothing futural—instead, only a standing still and a tying down—the death of all great and fruitful doubt.
The great doom is nearing, if searching is suffocated and the need for searching is blocked. The concealed errancy in the semblance of the homeland! (Cf. s.s. 36, p. 15f.1) (Cf. p. 24.)
1. {Martin Heidegger, Schelling: Vom Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit, Gesamtausgabe (GA)42 (Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1988), 53ff.}