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"The inexplicability of this inception is no defect, no failure of our knowledge of history. Instead, the genuineness and greatness of historical knowing lie in understanding the character of this inception as a mystery. Knowing a primal history is not ferreting out the primitive and collecting bones. It is neither half nor whole natural science, but, if is anything at all, it is mythology." (Introduction to Metaphysics, pp. 165-6)
Does Heidegger's idea of primal humanity as "violence-doing" owe anything to Nietzsche?
Ted
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CB: By rejecting anthropology and science, Heidegger sort of sets himself up for the question, "how do you know primal humanity is "violence-doing" ?
The evidence tends to show the opposite of what he says. Primal humanity emerged because of new ways of peaceful cooperation , not violence-doing to each other.