| | On the Structure of Human Existence: (Jeffrey Compton, M.A.) (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | That is, Dasein has a choice to understand itself in terms of Dasein's ownmost Self (authentically) or in terms of the world and entities therein (inauthentically), which is the way it does proximally and for the most part in everydayness. |
 | | That is Dasein is always already in-the-world in some definite set of circumstances and relationships with some possibilities open to it and other possibilities not open to it, never knowing with certainty where it has come from or where it is going. |
 | | In anxiety Dasein becomes aware of its facticity (that it is mortal) and its thrownness (that death is inevitable), for when Dasein reflects on what bothers it in anxiety the answer is "nothing". |
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