Being And Time

Heidegger says, “Along with the sober anxiety which brings us face to face with our individualized potentiality-for-Being, there goes an unshakable joy” (358). His enquiry has thus borne fruit. He has shown with his discussion not only how authenticity is theoretically possible, with death, but how, through conscience, it can be concretely realized for actual Dasein. This is a cause for “joy.” Despite our apparent lostness in the they, and the seemingly intractable difficulty of escaping it, a way out has been found. Further, to accomplish this ourselves, discovering our true self, would surely bring with it a similar sense of exultation.

Such joy, however, is not the only reward to come from Heidegger’s efforts. Along with it emerges a new type of experience and an accompanying understanding. As he says, “Temporality gets experienced in a phenomenally primordial way in Dasein’s authentic Being-a-whole, in the phenomenon of anticipatory resoluteness” (351). In other words, in the realization of authentic wholeness in resoluteness, we can experience and grasp our relation to time in a new way. At its most general, this relation is the realization that temporality fundamentally grounds every aspect of our

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