In Heidegger's phenomenology, Dasein is always in a meaningful world, but there is always an underlying background for every instance of signification.

Heidegger showed the inextricable relationship between the concept of substance and of subject, which explains why, instead of talking about " man " or " humankind ", he speaks about the Dasein, which is not a simple subject, nor a substance.

Heidegger thus conducts his description of experience with reference to " Dasein ," the being for whom being is a question.

Dasein, then, is not intended as a way of conducting a philosophical anthropology, but is rather understood by Heidegger to be the condition of possibility for anything like a philosophical anthropology.

Dasein, according to Heidegger, is care.

In the course of his existential analytic, Heidegger argues that Dasein, who finds itself thrown into the world amidst things and with others, is thrown into its possibilities, including the possibility and inevitability of one's own mortality.

The need for Dasein to assume these possibilities, that is, the need to be responsible for one's own existence, is the basis of Heidegger's notions of authenticity and resoluteness — that is, of those specific possibilities for Dasein which depend on escaping the " vulgar " temporality of calculation and of public life.

That Dasein is thrown into an already existing world and thus into its mortal possibilities does not only mean that Dasein is an essentially temporal being ; it also implies that the description of Dasein can only be carried out in terms inherited from the Western tradition itself.

But the basic tenet of " existentialism " has nothing at all in common with the statement from Being and Time " the ' essence ' of Dasein lies in its existence "— apart from the fact that in Being and Time no statement about the relation of essentia and existentia can yet be expressed, since there it is still a question of preparing something precursory.

According to Derrida, Sartre's interpretation of Dasein and other key Heideggerian concerns is overly psychologistic, anthropocentric, and misses the historicality central to Dasein in Being and Time.

Whereas Husserl conceived humans as having been constituted by states of consciousness, Heidegger countered that consciousness is peripheral to the primacy of one ’ s existence ( i. e., the mode of being of Dasein ), which cannot be reduced to one ’ s consciousness of it.

Husserl charged Heidegger with raising the question of ontology but failing to answer it, instead switching the topic to the Dasein, the only being for whom Being is an issue.

He rather tries to incorporate Nietzsche's thoughts into his own philosophical system of Being, Time and Dasein.

In this vein, he asserted that it was the task of contemporary philosophy to recover the original question of ( or " openness to ") Dasein ( translated as Being or Being-in-the-World ) present in the Presocratic philosophers but normalized, neutered and standardized since Plato.

The logification of intelligence led to the perception of reality as " Being " in a zone in space and time ( as in Heidegger's Dasein ) of identifiable entities with an essence, outside the human brain.

" Dasein means: care of the Being of beings as such that is ecstatically disclosed in care, not only of human Being ... Dasein is itself by virtue of its essential relation to Being in general.

In other words, whereas Heidegger calls the being of persons ' Dasein ', he determines ' Being in itself ' to be at the same time the most vague and general concept possible to contemplate, but also the topic of greatest interest to him as a philosopher.

Dasein, as a human being that is constituted by its temporality, illuminates and interprets the meaning of Being in Time.

In the question about the meaning of Being, what is primarily interrogated is those entities which have the character of Dasein.

… it is possible to individualize question of the meaning of Being very precisely for any particular Dasein.

As we can see from these quotations from Heidegger's Being and Time, the replacement of " Dasein " with " awareness " or " way of life " would render the ontological difference between entities and the being of entities incoherent.

Heidegger used the concept of Dasein to uncover the primal nature of " Being " ( Sein ).

Moreover, Dasein itself has a special distinctiveness as compared with other entities [...]" What distinguishes Dasein from other existent entities is that "[...] in its very Being, that Being is an issue for it.

Heidegger names this being Dasein ( see above ), and the book pursues its investigation through themes such as mortality, care, anxiety, temporality, and historicity.

Dasein is, by its nature, invested in social interaction and society.

For Karl Jaspers, the term " Dasein " meant existence in its most minimal sense, the realm of objectivity and science, in opposition to what Jaspers called " Existenz ", the realm of authentic being.

On the one hand, Dasein, as mortal, is " stretched along " between birth and death, and thrown into its world, that is, thrown into its possibilities, possibilities which Dasein is charged with the task of assuming.

When he first looks at his hands it is “” as though is noticing his own body for the first time … Having become cognizant of his Dasein … is willing to accept the presence of various Seiendes ”, as Heidegger calls existing objects, that start to appear beginning with the tree.

As an example of efforts in recent times, Heidegger ( who himself drew on ancient Greek sources ) adopted German terms like Dasein to articulate the topic.

In the summer of 1929 Husserl had studied carefully selected writings of Heidegger, coming to the conclusion that on several of their key positions they differed, e. g., Heidegger substituted Dasein for the pure ego, thus transforming phenomenology into an anthropology, a specie of psychologism strongly disfavored by Husserl.

Among the most radical re-thinkers of human self-consciousness was Heidegger, whose concept of Dasein or " Being-there " displaces traditional notions of the personal subject altogether.

Having nothing further to contribute to an ontology independent of human existence, Heidegger changed the topic to Dasein.

Being less encumbered by material embodiments they partake more of what is divine.

Being convinced that salvation is alone by accepting Christ as Saviour, and being convicted by the Holy Spirit of my lost condition, I do repent of all effort to be saved by any form of good works, and just now receive Jesus as my personal Saviour and salvation as a free gift from Him.

Being a dimensionless fraction, it may also be expressed as a percentage, and is measured on a scale from zero for no reflecting power of a perfectly black surface, to 1 for perfect reflection of a white surface.

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.

Being now master of the empire, he is said to have abandoned himself to a life of debauchery.

Being a protective encasement with at least one gun position, it is essentially a pillbox or small fortress ( though these are static fortifications of a purely defensive nature ) that can move toward the enemy-hence its offensive utility.

Being a monarchical state, with its roots invested in Colonial England, black letter law is that which is a term used to describe basic principles of law that are accepted by the majority of judges in most provinces and territories.

Being is an extremely broad concept encompassing subjective and objective features of reality and existence.

In a single sentence, parallel to Aristotle's statement asserting that being is substance, St. Thomas pushes away from the Aristotelian doctrine: " Being is not a genus, since it is not predicated univocally but only analogically.

This comparison is the basis of his Analogy of Being.

" The words " Is, or Bee, or Are, and the like " add no meaning to an argument nor do derived words such as " Entity, Essence, Essentially, Essentiality ", which " are the names of nothing " but are mere " Signes " connecting " one name or attribute to another: as when we say, A man, is, a living body, wee mean not that the Man is one thing, the Living Body another, and the Is, or Being another: but that the Man, and the Living Body, is the same thing ;...." " Metaphysiques ," Hobbes says, is " far from the possibility of being understood " and is " repugnant to naturall Reason.

Being to Hobbes ( and the other empiricists ) is the physical universe: The world, ( I mean ... the Universe, that is, the whole masse of all things that are ) is corporeall, that is to say, Body ; and hath the dimension of magnitude, namely, Length, Bredth and Depth: also every part of Body, is likewise Body ... and consequently every part of the Universe is Body, and that which is not Body, is no part of the Universe: and because the Universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing ; and consequently no where.