Heidegger also points to care as that which is characteristic of being human (he used a German word for this, Dasein). As you may know, Heidegger’s topic in Being and Time is the question of being, which he claims has long since been forgotten in philosophy–the ancient Greeks had it but we’ve since lost sight of this question. Heidegger claims that being in the world is care (L. cura), that is, not some detached “philosophical” looking at the world–we are entrenched in it already. We are attuned to the world into which we are thrown (our past so to speak) and we’re always busy projecting into future possibilities. These parts in particular sounds very Dickian if you remember his long concern with understanding his own past after 1974 and the so-called exegesis.

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