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“Worldview” (cf. above, p. 13).—Has anyone ever asked to what extent worldview is something first and last and under what presuppositions it can be so? Quite inconsequential which worldview is here “drummed” in.
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The difficulty: we do not know where we are, and we do not have the “there” needed to determine the “where.”
Dasein is aberrant; in it we ourselves have gone astray, and as straying ones we in the end obstinately take what is nearest to be the best.
The people as salvation, whereas the people is what requires salvation.
The question and the venture
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Every question not only desires an answer but above all demands a venture. And the ability to weigh and dominate the venture is already more than an answer; for the latter is just as impossible as a question for itself.
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The partitioning middle in all things—their gathering together in concealment (essence of truth).
The step to Da-sein:
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The effective consummation of the silence and of the ever-fainter sound as opening up and repositioning of beings with respect to essentially occurring beyng.
But that requires the essential refusal to speak of silence and to say anything—unless reticently—of the essence of language qua keeping silent.
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The new “logic” is the logic of silence. But it is completely different in essence and goal from a “logic of semblance.”