ABSTRACT
Pace Adler and Louth, however, Holderlin's insight is far from and indeed contrary to the universal and eternal truth that Plato makes of Parmenides's "all is one." Holderlin is here staking out the ground of what we are calling "new philosophy" and situating it in resistance to metaphysics. Metaphysics gives pre-Socratic philosophy its name. In so naming the philosophy that precedes metaphysics as a kind of thinking the legitimacy of which depends on its relation to metaphysics, on its relation to Socratic thought, metaphysics has taught us to take for granted the relative supremacy of metaphysics. To read the myth of Socrates at its inception is to read The Symposium—the great founding myth of metaphysics. The editors of Holderlin's letters and essays, Adler and Louth, define intellectual intuition as "a spiritual vision, the highest form of knowledge in Neoplatonic epistemology."
