ontically self-evident in the traditional treatment of the "problem of knowledge" was ontologically distorted [verstellt] in many ways to the point of becoming invisible.
The being which is essentially constituted by being-in-the-world is itself always its "there." According to the familiar meaning of the word, "there" points to "here" and "over there." The "here" of an 'I-here" is ·always understood in terms of an "over there" at hand in the sense of being toward it which de-distances, is directional, and takes care. The existential spatiality of Dasein which determines its "place" for it in this way is itself based upon being-in-the-world. The over there is the determinateness of something encountered within the world. "Here" and "over there" are possible' only in a "there," that is, when there is a being which as the being of the "there" has disclosed spatiality. This being [Seiende] bears in its own.most being [Sein] the character of not being closed off [Unverschlossenheit]. The expression "there" means this essential disclosedness [Erschlossenheit]. Through disclosedness this being (Dasein) is "there" for itself together with the there-being [Da-sein] of the world.
When we talk in an ontically figurative way about the lumen [133] naturale in human being, we mean nothing other than the existential-ontological structure of this being, the fact that it is in such a way as to be its there [sein Da zu sein]. To say that it is "illuminated" means that it is cleared* in itself as being-in-the-world, not by another being, but in such a way that it is itself the clearing [Lichtung].+ Only for a being thus cleared existentially do objectively present things become accessible in the light or concealed in darkness. By its very nature, Dasein brings its there along with it. If it lacks its there, it is not only factically not, but is in no sense, the being [Seiende] which is essentially Dasein. Dasein is‡ its disclosedness.
We must set forth the constitution of this being. But since the nature of this being is existence, the existential statement that "Dasein is its disclosedness" means: the being [Sein] about which this being [Seienden] is concerned in its being is its "there," which it is to be. In addition to characterizing the primary constitution of the being of disclosure, we must, in accordance with the character of our analysis, interpret the kind of being in which this being is its there in an everyday way.
* Ἀλήθεια—openness—clearing, light, shining.
† But not produced.
‡ Dasein exists, and it alone. Thus existence is standing out, into and enduring, the openness of the there: Ek-sistence.
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