From Heidegger’s perspective, the later evolvement of metaphysics displays a unilateral emphasis on clarity and sobriety to the neglect of “fire” and “pathos.” He called this lineage of post-Hellenic metaphysics “Occidental” and radically distinguished it from Western (abendländische) philosophy that enjoyed a unique bond with the Greek inception as the “Oriental” (das Morgenländische) or Asia (cf. Heidegger , 83/99). To put it in his own words, “For Hölderlin, Greece is the Other of the Western world. The one and the other belong within a singular history” (Heidegger , 70/78). Labeling Greece as “the Oriental” (das Morgenländische) highlights its intertwinement with the Evening-land (Abendland) as distinguished from the corrupted “Occidental.” Giving Greece the epithet of “Asia” keeps it at a remove from contemporary Europe that has become planetary and into which the Abendland has submerged itself. When Greece is considered as the proper other of the Abendland, it becomes a pressing task to excavate and revitalize its modes of mindfulness that are foreign to the Occidental ways of inquiry. In the meantime, however, there is the worry that the original Oriental or the Asiatic has been completely forgotten, or at most could only serve as a detour for recovering what I call the Beyng-historical significance of the Greek East. (LMHAT)