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Single Idea 22165

[filed under theme 23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 3. Angst ]

Full Idea

Anxiety discloses Dasein as Being-possible, and indeed as the only kind of thing which it can be of its own accord as something individualised in individualisation.

Gist of Idea

Anxiety reveals the possibility and individuality of Dasein

Source

Martin Heidegger (Being and Time [1927], I.6.40)

Book Ref

Heidegger,Martin: 'Being and Time' [Blackwell 1962], p.232

A Reaction

Is sounds like insecurity, as a sort of trauma that shocks one into self-realisation. The idea means very little to me personally.

The 47 ideas from Martin Heidegger

15571 The idea of an atemporal realm of validity is as implausible as medieval theology [Heidegger]
15581 Dasein is always only that which it has chosen to be [Heidegger]
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]
22223 Being-in-the-world is projection to possibilities, thrownness among them, and fallenness within them [Heidegger, by Caputo]
9273 Heidegger turns to 'Being' to affirm the uniqueness of humans in the world [Heidegger, by Gray]
21897 Reducing being to the study of beings too readily accepts the modern scientific view [Heidegger, by May]
15569 Heidegger says truth is historical, and never absolute [Heidegger, by Polt]
21949 Having thoughts and feelings need engagement in the world [Heidegger, by Wrathall]
22222 Dasein finds itself already amongst others [Heidegger, by Caputo]
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]
15586 When philosophy makes itself intelligible, it commits suicide [Heidegger]
20767 Culture is now dominated by boredom, so universal it is unnoticed [Heidegger, by Aho]
21953 For Heidegger there is 'ontic' truth or 'uncoveredness', as in "he is a true friend" [Heidegger, by Wrathall]
15584 I say the manifestation of Being needs humans, and humans only exist as reflected in Being [Heidegger]
15582 Perhaps the aim of philosophy is to abolish sham problems [Heidegger]
15579 My active existence is defined by being able to say 'I can' [Heidegger]
15583 Certainty that I will die is more basic to my existence than the Cogito [Heidegger]
15585 Later Heidegger sees philosophy as more like poetry than like science [Heidegger, by Polt]