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is a language that a gentleman need not know, but he should at least have forgotten it.

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

is necessary to learn well. Then you have to forget it.

It is first necessary to learn well Latin. Then you have to forget it.

is a grievous process through which the Greek experience of the world is trivialized, giving a hollow and self-evident ring to the mysteries of ancient Greek Dasein.

He sees the translation of Greek philosophical terms into Latin as a grievous process through which the Greek experience of the world is trivialized, giving a hollow and self-evident ring to the mysteries of ancient Greek Dasein. For Heidegger, physis is not simply “nature,” but the sprouting and emerging of being from concealment. Only philosophy, not physics, can do justice to physis. Philosophy is one of the few truly great human achievements, and what is great must always have great beginnings and great endings.

is guilty of having reducing reality to human access to it.

Heidegger was never a great fan of the Romans, and often criticized the Latin language and Latin thought for reducing reality to human access to it. The long decay of reality into mere human access to reality leads, he says, to the philosophy of Kant, in which things are entirely reduced to objects of human representation.

is basic comportment of the Romans toward beings in general is governed by the rule of the imperium. Imperium says im-parare, to establish, to make arrangements: prae-cipere, to occupy something in advance, and by this occupation to hold command over it, and so have the occupied as territory.

Latin, however, where ‘physis’ becomes ‘natura’, this sense was lost and another manner of world held sway: the basic comportment of the Romans toward beings in general is governed by the rule of the imperium. Imperium says im-parare, to establish, to make arrangements: prae-cipere, to occupy something in advance, and by this occupation to hold command over it, and so have the occupied as territory.

is reflective of the fact that the Roman empire never came to an end: it entrenched itself, invisibly and insidiously, as common sense and the unexamined principles of Western thinking.

For Heidegger, the Roman empire never came to an end: it entrenched itself, invisibly and insidiously, as common sense and the unexamined principles of Western thinking. This sort of change is the least visible: it concerns not what we see but how we see. For the same reason it is also ‘the most dangerous but also the most enduring, form of domination’ (Par: 46).

is a decisive change in the basic senses of truth, falsehood and knowledge, and the West has lived in and from them ever since.

In Latin is effected a decisive change in the basic senses of truth, falsehood and knowledge, and the West has lived in and from them ever since: What we usually call ‘knowing’ is being acquainted with something and its qualities. In virtue of these cognitions we ‘master’ things. This mastering ‘knowledge’ is given over to a being at hand, to its structure and its usefulness. Such ‘knowledge’ seizes the being, ‘dominates’ it, and thereby goes beyond it and constantly surpasses it. (Par: 3)

is guilty of having changed Being into actualitas (reality), rendering beings alone into what what is real and thus rendering ‘being’.

When Being has changed to actualitas (reality), beings alone are what is real’ and ‘being’, if it means anything, can mean only ‘beingness’, i.e. no longer the general world or horizon within which things emerge as such or such, but merely what each being or entity has in common.

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