Enrique Dussel

How does the thought arise? How does anyone think?, Before, we said that Descartes claimed the: "I think" as the source.
Heidegger, opposing it, says that thinking is something that comes from everyday life, "I'm-a-world"; the world of my
neighborhood-, my town, my province, my nation, etc. From that world thinking emerges, and comes back reexively to
'what happens' to clarify it. The day someone starts thinking about something, a something that before he just accepted
with an absolute security as everyone, that day the rupture of everyday life occurs.
Thinking as a 'Crisis' of everyday life
The breaking of the daily life allows the sufferer to think about the 'crisis' as thinking. I use the word crisis, it comes from
the Greek krinein, which means "to separate", "Krineo-Krisis" is the act of separating is "judgment." "Criteria" means
instead "tribunal".
While someone is in everyday life is not "separated" has no criterion, and doesn't judge. In contrast, in the crisis, when he
separates himself, from the transcendence, from that 'overcoming the horizon', it comes back to the everyday to make a
judgment. This crisis of which we speak is existential, in the sense that it is a daily life crisis, a crisis of life for those who
experience it, a break in his life. No one can think if he does not con-verts from everyday life thinking into 'Thinking',
which means suffering, break of many habits, con-version to a new life.
Jolif, a French thinker who's disciple I used to be, says that thinking, is a "death to everyday life." A death because if I do
not die to the obvious and naive way of living in the world, in my world, I will never think. The one who makes
philosophy repeating books and studying systems, remaining the same person as before they started studying does not
makes philosophy; if your daily life is not put in a radical crisis and from the pain of the death of his daily life does not
aarises a new man, then his thinking is not philosophical. Or, more simply, he does not think.
It is therefore said that philosophy, as an introduction to philosophy, has to have the excitement of exhortation. How do
you get someone out of everyday thinking philosophically, if not inviting them to something much more human and
exciting than mere everyday life? in Greek exhortation was called protreptiks. Aristotle has a book entitled Exhortation,
which is a call to conversion, the passage to transcendence. Only when the passage occurs to transcendence from the
everyday life, the thinking occurs.