The Clearing of Concepts

Heidegger says the Greeks weren't just chaos. He said they had these mighty early concepts, which you could think of their gods. They're not invented by them because the concept doesn't come from you. It comes from being. So those things clear themselves to the Greeks early on and that's the gods in a way. That's the clearing. And the concealing is the closing up again as you can't have endless infinite being coming into your brain ... You wouldn't be able to look at anything, would you?

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