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of existence, the authenticity and inauthenticity of Dasein, are grounded ontologically on possible temporalizations of temporality.

If the ascendancy of the falling understanding of Being (of Being as presence-at-hand)1 keeps Dasein far from the ontological character of its own Being, it keeps it still farther from the primordial foundations of that Being. So one must not be surprised if, at first glance, temporality does not correspond to that which is accessible to the ordinary understanding as 'time'. Thus neither the way time is conceived in our ordinary experience of it, nor the problematic which arises from this experience, can function without examination as a criterion for the appropriateness of an Interpretation of time. Rather, we must, in our investigation, make ourselves familiar beforehand with the primordial phenomenon of temporality, so that in terms of this we may cast light on the necessity, the source, and the reason for the dominion of the way it is ordinarily understood.

The primordial phenomenon of temporality will be held secure by demonstrating that if we have regard for the possible totality, unity, and development of those fundamental structures of Dasein which we have hitherto exhibited, these structures are all to be conceived as at bottom 'temporal' and as modes of the temporalizing of temporality. Thus, when temporality has been laid bare, there arises for the existential analytic the task of repeating our analysis of Dasein in the sense of Interpreting its essential structures with regard to their temporality. The basic directions of the analyses thus required are prescribed by temporality itself. Accordingly the chapter will be divided as follows : anticipatory resoluteness as the way in which Dasein's potentiality-for-Being-a-whole has existentiell authenticity2 (Section 62); the hermeneutical Situation at which we have arrived for Interpreting the meaning of the Being of care, and the methodological character of the existential analytic in general (Section 63); care and Selfhood (Section 64); temporality as the ontological meaning of care [305] (Section 65); Dasein's temporality and the tasks arising therefrom of repeating the existential analysis in a primordial manner (Section 66).


62. Anticipatory Resoluteness as the Way in which Dasein's Potentiality-for-Being-a-whole has Existentiell Authenticity

When resoluteness has been 'thought through to the end' in a way corresponding to its ownmost tendency of Being, to what extent does it


1 '... (Sein als Vorhandenheit) ...' The 'als' of the later editions replaces an equality-sign which we find in the earlier editions.

2 'Das existenziell eigentliche Ganzseinkonnen- des Daseins als vorlaufende Entschlossenheit.'


Being and Time (M&R) by Martin Heidegger