Call Of Conscience
Martin Heidegger
May ’77
When anxiety slips between Dasein's many faces the "call of
conscience," however faint, can be heard. If Dasein listens carefully,
then the discourse of the "they" fades into the background and the
"call" summons Dasein to its non-relational, not to be outstripped
anticipation of death. Resolute Dasein, by answering the call, moves
within one moment of existing authentically, but that moment, however
small, is still formidable enough to block Dasein from holding on to
the truth of existence in authenticity. "Being-towards-death," says
Heidegger, "is the process of Dasein coming back to its ownmost
primordial having been as Being-in-the-world." Coming back to its
ownmost having been is not the problem. Staying there is.
The way we exist temporality in everydayness is the time of
inauthentic Dasein, but the more one communicates with the call of
conscience, the less one speaks, and the less one speaks, the more
reticence runs through state of mind, understanding, and
being-with-others. In "the moment of vision" a totally reticent Dasein
is brought back before its concern in the rapture that precedes all
possibilities, in the rapture that only Being-in-the-world can
produce. In a manner of speaking, in the "moment of vision" an enabled
Dasein "treads water" above inauthenticity and thrownness for the sake
of its own authenticity and resoluteness.
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