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What, for Bultmann, is "philosophy itself"? – -- The "problem" of "philosophy itself," at any rate, is "the problem of understanding being and therewith of understanding oneself" (NTM: 78).

What question, then, has to motivate understanding philosophical texts? – -- "The question of truth" has to motivate such understanding, so that it becomes a discussion with the author. "One understands Plato only if one philosophizes with him" (78).

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