Temporal Meaning of Dasein's Everydayness

Key Concepts

Dasein: Heidegger's term for human existence or being-there.
Everydayness: The mode of being in which Dasein maintains itself proximally and for the most part.
Temporality: The existential and ontological structure of Dasein's being.
Concern: Dasein's practical engagement with the world.

Structures of Dasein: Concern has shown that these structures must be rooted in temporality.
Average Way of Existing: Dasein's everyday existence, not conspicuous but foundational.
Ontological Significance: Everydayness is initially obscure but gains clarity through the analysis of temporality.
Temporal Character: Everydayness implies a temporal character; the 'tomorrow' in everyday concern is eternally 'yesterday'.
Proximally & For the Most Part: Proximally refers to Dasein in publicness, for the most part signifies how Dasein shows itself as the norm.
Comfortableness of the Accustomed: Even if it forces repugnant actions, there's a comfort in the accustomed.
Temporal Stretching Along: Dasein stretches itself temporally in everydayness.
Everyday Concern with Time: Involves an understanding of time that is not purely calendrical but existential.

Question of Being: All efforts aim to answer this fundamental question.
Understanding of Being: Only upon interpreting Dasein fundamentally can we grasp the understanding of being.
Primordial Interpretation: Temporality is the condition for authentic potentiality.
Ontological Characteristics of Everydayness: Requires consideration of Dasein's totality, between birth and death.
Birth and Death: Are inseparable from the being of Dasein, not just boundaries but integral to its being.
Historizing: The way Dasein stretches along temporally, forming a life history.

Primordial Historicality: Understanding history not just as past events but as the context of becoming.
Temporal Significance: History is related to the present in its actuality.
Historical Entities: Includes not just human actions but equipment and natural occurrences within a world context.
World Historical: Entities within the world regarded as historical by their belonging to a past world of Dasein.

Dasein's Historicality: Based on its thrownness and concern, where past and future possibilities are inherent.
Resoluteness: Dasein's commitment to its possibilities, disclosing authentic existence through inherited possibilities.
Authentic Historizing: In resoluteness, Dasein encounters its fate and destiny.

Publicity and Concern: Dasein's interaction with others and the world through daily activities impacts its understanding of history.
Lost in Concern: Everydayness conceals Dasein’s authentic potential, allowing history to be perceived through public concern.
Irresoluteness and Inauthentic Historicality: Fleeing from death leads to a fragmented understanding of history.

Historiology: The science of interpreting history grounded in Dasein's historicality.
Dilthey and York: Their works aim to understand life and history through a philosophical lens, interpreting Dasein’s historicality.
Ontology and Temporality: Understanding historicality through the lenses provided by previous philosophers.

Existential Analytic: Must consider the practical understanding of time.
Reckoning with Time: How Dasein regulates itself in time through everyday practices like using calendars and clocks.
World Time: The public time encountered through Dasein’s interaction with the world.

Public Time: Structured by how Dasein concerns itself with time, often manifesting through clocks.
Within-Timeness: The foundational structure of public time as based on Dasein's temporality.
Dating and Spanning: Dasein dates time concerning environmental involvements and measures it through reliable, public tools like clocks.

Ordinary Experience of Time: Understood as a sequence of nows, masking the true temporality of Dasein.
Hegel's Perspective
- Connection between time and spirit: Attempts to show the spirit's historical actualization within time.
- Critique: Points out formal abstractions and contrasts with Heidegger's understanding of authentic temporality.

Question of Being: The study aims to address this by understanding time and history through the lens of Dasein's being.
Fundamental Ontology: Seeks to reconcile how Dasein's temporality underpins its existence and historicality.
Future Directions: Encourages further exploration to grasp the full implications of being and temporality.