The discourse of conscience never comes to utterance. Conscience only calls silently; that is, the call comes from the soundlessness of uncanniness and calls Dasein thus summoned back to become still in the stillness of itself. Wanting to have a conscience thus understands this silent discourse appropriately only in reticence. It takes the words away from the commonsense idle chatter of the they.
The commonsense interpretation of conscience, which "strictly adheres to facts," takes the silent discourse of conscience as the occasion to pass it off as something not ascertainable or present at all. The fact that they, hearing and understanding only loud idle chatter, cannot "confirm" any call, is attributed to conscience with the excuse that it is "mute" and obviously not objectively present. With this interpretation, the they only covers over its own failure to hear the call and the fact that its ''hearing" does not reach very far.
The disclosedness of Dasein in wanting-to-have-a-conscience is thus constituted by the attunement of anxiety, by understanding as projecting oneself upon one's ownmost being-guilty, and by discourse as reticence. The eminent, authentic disclosedness attested in Dasein itself [297] by its conscience--the reticent projecting· oneself upon one's ownmost being-guilty which is ready for anxiety-we call resoluteness [Entschlossenheit].
Resoluteness is an eminent mode of the disclosedness of Dasein. But, in an earlier passage11 disclosedness was interpreted existentially as primordial truth. This is not primarily a quality of "judgment" or of any particular mode of behavior at all, but an essential constituent of being-in-the-world as such. Truth must be understood as a fundamental existential. Our ontological clarification of the statement that "Dasein is in the truth" has pointed to the primordial disclosedness of this being as the truth of existence; and for its delineation we have referred to the analysis of the authenticity of Dasein.12
Now, in resoluteness the most primordial truth of Dasein has been reached, because it is authentic. The disclosedness of the there discloses equiprimordially the whole of being-in-the-world-the world, being-in, and the self that is this being [Seiende] as 'I am." With the disclosedness of world, innerworldly beings have always already been discovered. The discoveredness of things at hand and objectively present is grounded in the disclosedness of the world;13 for if the actual totality of relevance of things at hand is to be freed, this requires a preunderstanding of significance. In understanding significance, Dasein taking care of things is circumspectly referred to the things encountered at hand. The understanding of significance as the disclosedness
11. Cf.§ 44.
12. Cf.§ 44.
13. Cf.§ 18.