More precisely, how does this domination of common sense manifeset itself? Principally by a refusal to question the beings that common sense finds so obvious, accepting these beings of daily commerce at their face value and resenting the probing of philosophy into their hidden ground as an attack upon itself. What is this, however, if not to live on the assumption that the power of ordinary intelligence is sufficient to penetrate the core of beings and read there its own light all of their hidden meaning? This is the fundamental impulse of a knowing subject to master the objects of its knowledge. Philosophy(the thinking of Being), on the other hand, has a completely different style, simply becasue it does interrogate(Fragen) these beings, and, indeed, in their ground, for it refuses to limit itself to their limitations and lets-be beings-as-such-in-their-totality, sc. Being with all its negativity. In a word, philosophy overcomes the subjective thinking of common sense because it probes the mystery of beings William Richardson -Through Phenomenology to Thought
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