- Brent Davis
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Brent Davis
Scientist: All the same, it is to me incomprehensible that the essence of the human could ever be found by looking away from the human.
Guide : It is incomprehensible to me as well; and so I seek to attain clarity about the extent to which this is possible or even necessary.
(106) Scientist: To catch sight of the essence of the human without looking at the human?
Guide: Yes. And if thinking is the distinguishing mark of the essence of the human, then what is essential to this essence, namely the essence of thinking, can be first properly caught sight of only insofar as we look away from thinking.
Scholar: Yet thinking, conceived of in the traditional manner as representing, is a willing; even Kant conceives of thinking in this manner when he characterizes it as spontaneity. Thinking is willing, and willing is thinking. (p. 68)