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Single Idea 21951

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

Full Idea

This being-with-one-another dissolves one's own Dasein completely into the kind of being of 'the others', in such a way, indeed, that the others, as distinguishable and explicit, vanish more and more.

Gist of Idea

In company with others one's Dasein dissolves, and even the others themselves dissolve

Source

Martin Heidegger (Being and Time [1927], p.164), quoted by Mark Wrathall - Heidegger: how to read 5

Book Reference

Wrathall,Mark: 'Heidegger: how to read' [Granta 2005], p.47


A Reaction

He seems to be describing the psychology of someone who joins a small crowd which gradually increases in size. I take this relation to others to be the basic existential dilemma, of retaining individual authenticity within a community.