However, even the Greeks had to rescue and protect the astonishingness of this most astonishing thing against the attacks of Sophist reasoning which always had ready for everything an answer which was comprehensible to everyone and which they put on the market. The rescue of the most astonishing thing--being in Being--was accomplished by a few who started off in the direction of this most astonishing thing, that is, the σοφόν. By doing this they became those who strove for the σοφόν and who through their own striving awakened and kept alive among others the yearning for the σοφόν. The loving the σοφόν, that already mentioned harmony with the σοφόν, the ἁρμονία, thus became an ὄρεξις, a striving for the σοφόν. The σοφόν--the being in Being--is now especially sought. Because the loving is no longer an original harmony with the σοφόν but is a particular striving, towards the σοφόν, the loving of the σοφόν becomes "φιλόσοφία." The striving is determined by Eros.

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