ABSTRACT
Metaphysics since its inception is the theory of the Being of beings, with Being thought and conceived of as presence. Such presence obscures or outright conceals the facticity, temporality, and historicity both of beings and the meaning and truth of Being itself—‘itself, that is, understood as the abysmal ground of the clearing wherein beings transpire. According to Boeder, only when “the beginning of Greek philosophy is grasped as a closed construct” do the “necessary distinctions concerning the ‘origin’ of metaphysical thinking come to light”. Boeder contests Heidegger’s “notorious assumption of the privilege of presence”. The Parmenidean identity of thinking and Being, defies “the asserted dependence of being on the nature of man, that is to say, on his thinking,” because “only in the withholding of itself does a dependence of so- called Being on the nature of man become thinkable”.
