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THE HEIDEGGERIAN CONCEPT OF DASEIN AND ITS ONTOLOGICAL MODALITY: DAS MAN

Journal: Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology (Vol.10, No. 1)

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Page : 45-60

Keywords : Being qua Being; existence; being-in-the-world; authenticity versus inauthenticity; deper- sonalisation; hermeneutics; existentialism.;

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Abstract

The paper presents a non-standard interpretation of the celebrated Heideggerian existential das Man in terms of its oft-underrated unity with Dasein—an entity of a special ontic-ontological prerogative. The present authors intend to highlight this essential theme in terms of the specific unity of Dasein being-in-the world, covering many subsequent and adjacent existentials in the analytics of the Heide- ggerian existential hermeneutics, especially Mitsein/Mitdasein. Dasein's existence-essence is based on the structure of possibilities, and hence free, spontaneous choices, while Das Man is a concrete choice of a certain modus of existence rendering—as it were—all other modi invalid and non-operational. Although Heidegger is far from taking up an ethical or moral stance in its traditional understanding, he is quite adamant that the phenomenon of das Man invalidates a truly human project of existing one's own possibilities—to wit—be oneself (Jemeines).

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