There's Also the Potential to Authentic Resoluteness at Lake Vanaja

Martin Heidegger attempted to maintain the definition of "Dasein" as we all are, in our average everydayness. Dasein does not spring into existence upon philosophical exploration of itself. Heidegger intended Dasein as a concept, in order to provide a stepping stone in the questioning of what it means to BE.

Dasein is the event of us being - no-thing happens and discloses our world, in a particular way.

Then - nothing subjective, in particular?

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We can begin by excluding Dasein's inauthentic temporality. This mode of time refers to our unengaged, "average" way in which we regard time. It is the "past we forget" and the "future we expect," all without decisiveness and resolute understanding. Heidegger seems to consider that this mode of temporality is the temporal dimension of de-severance and directionality, since de-severance and directionality deal only with everyday actions. As such, inauthentic temporality must itself be founded in an authentic basis of some sort. The two remaining candidates for the foundation are Dasein's authentic temporality and originary temporality.

Dasein's authentic temporality is the "resolute" mode of temporal existence. Authentic temporality is realized when Dasein becomes aware of its own finite existence.12 This temporality has to do with one's grasp of his or her own life as a whole from one's own unique perspective. Life gains meaning as one's own life-project, bounded by the sense of one's realization that he or she is not immortal. This mode of time appears to have a normative function within Heidegger's theory. In the second half of BT he often refers to inauthentic or "everyday" mode of time as lacking some primordial quality which authentic temporality possesses.

(Source: Yoko Arisaka)

Heidegger describes conscience as a call of care, which summons Da-sein to return from falling prey to the world. Falling prey to the world is a form of inauthenticity, in that Da-sein becomes absorbed by being-with-others, being-with things at hand, or being-with things objectively present, to the extent that Da-sein no longer reveals itself. Conscience enables Da-sein to recognize what is lacking in its being, and to redirect itself toward its full potentiality. The call of conscience is to take care of other beings, and of being-in-the-world.

According to Heidegger, resoluteness is the mode by which Da-sein is disclosed to itself as wanting to act according to conscience. Resoluteness is a willingness of Da-sein to project itself into situations in which it may feel guilty for not having taken care of things, and in which it thus may experience Angst. Resoluteness is a freedom from fear, and is an acceptance of Angst as an existential possibility. Resoluteness is authentic being-in-the-world, in that Da-sein takes care of things, of other beings, and of its own mode of being.

Heidegger describes anticipatory resoluteness as being ahead-of-itself. Anticipation refers to the "not yet," while thrownness refers to the "already projected." Authentic existence is resolute, while inauthentic existence is irresolute.

According to Heidegger, being-toward-death is attunement to no-longer-being-in-the-world. Authentic being-toward-death is attunement to death as an existential possibility. Inauthentic being-toward-death is a lack of attunement to death as an existential possibility. Being-toward-death is Angst insofar as it is an attunement to death as a negation of the individualized being of Da-sein. Angst may arise when Da-sein is faced with the possible annihilation of its existence.

Heidegger explains that Da-sein is a temporal mode of being. Authentic temporality is the being of Da-sein, while inauthentic temporality is the being of innerworldy things or beings unlike Da-sein. Time is a structural factor for Da-sein. Temporality makes possible the historicity of Da-sein, which may be undisclosed or concealed but may be discovered by historical inquiry. The historicity of Da-sein means that ontological inquiry also has its own historicity.

(Source: Alex Scott)

Resoluteness is not morally better than irresoluteness. It does not guarantee that we shall behave in a morally better way. The advantage of resoluteness is that resolute Dasein discloses itself, its possibilities, and its wholeness, in a way that irresolute Dasein does not.