Let us bear well in mind that both the theme of our question--"philosophy"--as well as the way in which we ask "what is that...?" are Greek in origin. We ourselves belong to this origin even when we do not mention the word "philosophy." We are peculiarly summoned back into this source and are re-claimed for and by it as soon as we not only utter the words of the question, "What is Philosophy?" but reflect upon its meaning. [The question "What is Philosophy?" is not a question which directs a kind of knowledge towards itself (philosophy of philosophy). Nor is it an historical question which is interested in determining how that which is called "philosophy" began and developed. The question is an historical, that means, a fate-full question. Even more--it is not a it is the historical question of our Western-European actuality.]

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