apparently fixed anthropological-psychological content and utter them out of a wholly other truth—and in order to ground that truth—without falling victim to the anthropological misinterpretation and the facile rejoinder that indeed everything is "anthropological." The cheapness of this objection is so boundless that it must be suspected. What lies behind it is the fact that one never wants to place the human being—i.e., oneself—into question, perhaps because one is secretly not so very sure of the anthropological splendor of mankind.
44. "Decisions"
whether the human being wishes to remain the "subject," or whether the human being grounds Da-sein;
whether, along with "subject" "animal" is to remain enduringly as "substance" and "rationale" is to remain as "culture," or whether the truth of beyng (see below) will find in Da-sein a future abode;
whether beings take being as their "most general" feature and thereby deliver being up to "ontology" and thus bury it, or whether beyng in its uniqueness will come to words and will pervasively attune beings in their non-repeatability;
whether truth as correctness deteriorates into the certainty of representation and the security of calculation and lived experience, or whether the initially ungrounded essence of ἀλήθεια comes to be grounded as the clearing of the self-concealing;
whether beings, as the most self-evident, rigidify everything moderate, small, and average into the rational, or whether what is most question-worthy constitutes the genuineness of beyng;
whether art is an arrangement of lived experience or the setting-into-work of truth;
whether history is degraded into an armory of confirmations and precursors or arises as a chain of strange and unscalable mountains;
whether nature is debased into an exploitable domain of calculation and organization and into an occasion for "lived experience," or whether, as the self-secluding earth, it bears the open realm of the pictureless world;
whether the absence of the divine from beings celebrates its triumphs in the Christianization of culture, or whether the plight of the undecidability regarding the nearness and remoteness of the gods prepares a space of decision;
whether humans venture beyng and thereby venture going under, or whether they content themselves with beings;