The Third Directive from the Translating Word ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑ: The Realm of the Opposition between ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑ and ΛΗΘΗ in the History of Being.
§2. First meditation on the transformation of the essence of truth and of its counter-essence.
a) The conflictual character of un-concealedness. The third directive: truth in oppositional relations. The resonance of ἀλήθεια in subjectivity. Reference to Hegel and Schelling. Directive toward the oppositions between concealedness and unconcealedness, falsity and truth.
"Truth" is never "in itself," available by itself, but instead must be gained by struggle. Unconcealedness is wrested from concealment, in a conflict with it. Unconcealedness is not simply gained through conflict in the general sense that among humans truth is something to be sought out and to be struggled for. Rather, the sought and struggled for, regardless of the conflict in man over it is in its very essence a conflict: "unconcealedness." It is unclear who is struggling here and how those involved are struggling. It is important however, to think for once this conflictual essence of truth, an essence which has been shining for 2,500 years in the faintest of all lights. The task is to experience properly the conflict occurring within the essence of truth.
To be sure, the essence of the conflict is at first itself controversial. Presumably, "conflict" here means something other than mere quarrel and fight other than blind discord, other than "war," and other than "competition" as well. Perhaps these are only variations and initial appellations of the conflict the primordial essence of which we may surmise in the essence of truth in the sense of ἀλήθεια and which we will come to know one day. Perhaps the word of Heraclitus, so often misused and always truncated, Ηόλεμος πάντων ... πατήρ ἐστὶ, as
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