Martin Heidegger · Philosophy
Most of the time we are not ourselves. We live as ‘one’ lives - doing what one does, thinking what one thinks, dispersed into an anonymous public Heidegger calls <em>das Man</em>, ‘the they.’ This everyday absorption (fallenness) lightens the burden of existence but at the cost of our own selfhood - until anxiety reveals the uncanny truth that we are not, after all, at home.
You learned Heidegger’s analysis of das Man (‘the they’), the anonymous public self we mostly live as, and of fallenness - our everyday absorption in idle talk, curiosity, and ambiguity. Explain how the ‘they’ both relieves and dispossesses us, and what anxiety and uncanniness reveal.
Leads to Kierkegaard.
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