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Ep. 297: Heidegger on the Human Condition (Part Two)

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The Existential of Facticity

Human beings can be understood as something merely objectively present, right? So we can think of human beings as physical objects. To do this, one must completely disregard, or just not see, the existential constitution of being. This objective presence does not become accessible by disregarding the specific structures of dasin, but only in a previous understanding of them. And yet the factuality of the fact of one's own dacin is ontologically totally different from the factual occurrence of a kind of stone. The fact dacin, as the way, in which every dacin actually is, we call facticity.

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