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[filed under theme 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human) ]

Full Idea

The formal existential totality of Dasein's ontological structural whole is: the Being of Dasein means ahead-of-itself-Being-already-in-(the-world) as Being-alongside (entities encountered within-the-world).

Gist of Idea

Dasein is ahead of itself in the world, and alongside encountered entities

Source

Martin Heidegger (Being and Time [1927], I.6 41)

Book Ref

Heidegger,Martin: 'Being and Time' [Blackwell 1962], p.237

A Reaction

If you find that thought really illuminating, you are probably on the wrong website. However, the thought that we exist 'ahead of ourselves' might be a fruitful line for existentialists to explore.

The 37 ideas from 'Being and Time'

9273 Heidegger turns to 'Being' to affirm the uniqueness of humans in the world [Heidegger, by Gray]
22223 Being-in-the-world is projection to possibilities, thrownness among them, and fallenness within them [Heidegger, by Caputo]
15569 Heidegger says truth is historical, and never absolute [Heidegger, by Polt]
21897 Reducing being to the study of beings too readily accepts the modern scientific view [Heidegger, by May]
21949 Having thoughts and feelings need engagement in the world [Heidegger, by Wrathall]
22222 Dasein finds itself already amongst others [Heidegger, by Caputo]
21952 Anxiety about death frees me to live my own life [Heidegger, by Wrathall]
22224 Anxiety is the uncanniness felt when constantly fleeing from asserting one's own freedom [Heidegger, by Caputo]
20453 Heidegger says we must either choose an inauthentic hero, or choose yourself as hero [Heidegger, by Critchley]
22157 Dasein is a mode of Being distinguished by concern for its own Being [Heidegger]
22158 Pheomenology seeks things themselves, without empty theories, problems and concepts [Heidegger]
15580 There are no raw sense-data - our experiences are of the sound or colour of something [Heidegger]
15573 For us, Being is constituted by awareness of other sorts of Being [Heidegger]
15574 'Logos' really means 'making something manifest' [Heidegger, by Polt]
15572 Being what it is (essentia) must be conceived in terms of Being (existence) [Heidegger]
22159 If we posit 'I' as the starting point, we miss the mind's phenomenal content [Heidegger]
22164 When Dasein grasps something it exists externally alongside the thing [Heidegger]
22160 Our relationship to a hammer strengthens when we use [Heidegger]
22161 Readiness-to-hand defines things in themselves ontologically [Heidegger]
15576 Heidegger seeks a non-traditional concept of essence as 'essential unfolding' [Heidegger, by Polt]
22162 There is an everyday self, and an authentic self, when it is grasped in its own way [Heidegger]
15577 Moods are more fundamentally revealing than theories - as when fear reveals a threat [Heidegger, by Polt]
15578 Propositions don't provide understanding, because the understanding must come first [Heidegger, by Polt]
8137 Dasein is ahead of itself in the world, and alongside encountered entities [Heidegger]
22165 Anxiety reveals the possibility and individuality of Dasein [Heidegger]
22163 The scandal of philosophy is expecting to prove reality when the prover's Being is vague [Heidegger]
22166 Dasein has the potential to be itself, but must be shown this in the midst of ordinariness [Heidegger]
8136 If we work and play with other people, they are bound to be 'Dasein', intelligent agents [Heidegger, by Cooper,DE]
21951 In company with others one's Dasein dissolves, and even the others themselves dissolve [Heidegger]
20114 Everyone is other, and no one is himself [Heidegger]
20748 We do not add value to naked things; its involvement is disclosed in understanding it [Heidegger]
20745 'Dasein' expresses not 'what' the entity is, but its being [Heidegger]
7680 Ontology is possible only as phenomenology [Heidegger]
8134 The word 'dasein' is used to mean 'the manner of Being which man possesses', and also the human creature [Heidegger, by Cooper,DE]
20749 Perceived objects always appear in a context [Heidegger]
8135 'Dasein' is Being which is laid claim to, and which matters to its owner [Heidegger, by Cooper,DE]
21948 Dasein is being which can understand itself, and possess itself in a way allowing authenticity [Heidegger]