ABSTRACT
According to hedonism, the essential unalterable thing is Being. The original injustice grasped by hedonism as an acknowledgment of man's mortality is then realized in its concession of the unalterable and primary character of man's limitation. This limitation refers to man's not being able to appropriate the whole. Exegesis seeks to possessively appropriate the place of alter to its own as its way of overcoming the original limitation expressed in the fact of any one man's exclusion from being the whole, from being all men. The conception of the unalterability of Being means that Being is revoked as a living force that impregnates and leaves its trace in every speech. The difference between exegisis and hedonism is an icon of the difference between philosophy and common sense. This difference resides in the exegetical concern with community, tradition, with the fate of alter, and with the continuation of interaction.
