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Chapter 27 Self-Quiz
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Heidegger chooses Dasein as the entity to interrogate as a first step toward uncovering the meaning of Being because
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an understanding of Being is a definite characteristic of Dasein's Being.
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Dasein is a subject, and whatever has Being has it relative to some subject.
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he's got to start somewhere.
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As Being-in-the-world, Dasein
includes the world as a proper part of its own Being.
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exists primordially as present-at-hand.
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is immersed in a world of gear or equipment.
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exists independently of others, with whom it must make connection if there is to be a common world.
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In average everydayness, Dasein
is the "I myself."
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is unconcerned with the âdistanceâ between itself and the Others.
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falls-in-with-the-One.
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is saddled with answerability for the way things go.
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Anxiety
needs to be overcome if we are to be authentic.
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reveals how far from the truth we have strayed.
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has as its object something determinately impending as a threat to Dasein's Being.
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motivates falling-away-from-ourselves into the tranquilizing world of what "they" say.
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"Falling-away-from" is characterized by
an acute understanding of our inauthenticity.
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fleeing in the face of anxiety.
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fleeing the world of the "They."
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fleeing toward death.
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In authentic existence, Dasein
anticipates its own death.
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finds its own pure essence, distinct from the They-self, and remains true to it.
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is true to its own understanding of itself as other-than-the-They.
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is motivated by curiosity to find the truth.
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As Being-toward-death, Dasein
necessarily flees in the face of this possibility.
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can be understood as a totality.
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recognizes its guilt for not having done what it ought.
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identifies itself as something immortal, despite appearances.
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The meaning of Dasein's Being, Care,
is Being-itself.
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manifests itself in Dasein as worry-as-such.
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shows that the best thing for man is never to have been born.
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shows itself in having been, making present, and being always ahead of itself.
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