"If we think metaphysically, as is necessary here, and not psychologically,
then reason means the immediate perception of beings."
What does 'the immediate perception of beings' mean in (other) Heideggerian
terms (say, from The Origin of the Work of Art)? What's an
example? What does this imply about man's essence?
How does reason as 'the immediate perception of being' accord with a more
traditional philosophical understanding? How might an analytic philosopher
elaborate this understanding of reason? What's an example?
How would Heidegger interpret this explanation?
2) What is the difference between 'historical reflection' and
'historiographical consideration' (p. 34 ff.)? What is the relation between
the two? Examples?
3) What does Heidegger mean when he says (p. 35):
"The greatness of creative activity takes its measure from the
extent of its power to follow up the innermost hidden law of the beginning
and to carry the course of this law to its end. But because the beginning
is always the most concealed, because it is inexhaustible and withdraws,
and because on the other hand what has already been becomes immediately
the habitual, and because this conceals the beginning through its extension,
therefore what has become habitual needs transformations, i.e., revolutions."
What is 'the beginning'? What becomes 'habitual'? What does
this imply about revolutions (cf. p. 101, bottom)? Examples?
What does this mean in the terms used in The Origin of the Work of Art?
4) What does Heidegger mean when he says (p. 36):
"It might turn out that the essence of something is not the
indifferent but what is most essential."
What are the two understandings of 'essence' being contrasted here?
Examples?
5) What does Heidegger mean when he says (p. 76):
"The seeing of the look that is called the idea is a seeing which
draws forth, a seeing which in the very act of seeing compels what is to
be seen before itself. Therefore we call this seeing, which first
brings forth into visibility that which is to be seen, and produces it
before itself, 'productive seeing'."
What is 'the look' of a thing? In what sense does 'productive
seeing' first?or initial seeing? How is what is to be seen produced
or seen 'before itself'? Examples?
Is 'productive seeing' creative? Is it foundational?
Is it founded?
6) Why does Heidegger think that "the primordial thinking of the Greeks,
...as the beginning, was the greatest" (p. 106)?