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[from 'Being and Time' by Martin Heidegger, in 16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self ]

Full Idea

Everyone is other, and no one is himself.

Gist of Idea

Everyone is other, and no one is himself

Source

Martin Heidegger (Being and Time [1927], p.165), quoted by Rüdiger Safranski - Nietzsche: a philosophical biography 09

Book Reference

Safranski,Rüdiger: 'Nietzsche: a philosophical biography' [Granta 2003], p.212


A Reaction

Safranski describes this as the idea of 'structural self-evasion'. He detects the same idea in Nietzsche's 'Daybreak'.