dasein

<ontology, history of philosophy> Heidegger's German term for "Being-there," the kind of existence that self-conscious human beings uniquely possess. Recommended Reading: Being and Time: A Translation of Sein and Zeit, tr. by Joan Stambaugh (SUNY, 1997) and Hubert L. Dreyfus, Being-In-The-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division I (MIT, 1991).

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