This path to the answer to our question is not a break with history, no repudiation of history, but is an adoption and transformation of what has been handed down to us. Such an adoption of history is what is meant by the term "destruction." The meaning of this word has been clearly described in Being and Time (S 6). Destruction does not mean destroying but dismantling, liquadating, putting to one side the merely historical assertions about the history of philosophy. Destruction means--to open our ears, to make ourselves free for what speaks to us in tradition and the Being of being. By listening to this interpellation we attain the correspondence.

The question of Being does not achieve its true concreteness until we have carried through the process of destroying the ontological tradition.
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