Single Idea 22165

[catalogued under 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 Reference

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.