dasein

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See also: Dasein and da sein

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Etymology

From German Dasein (“there-to be”), from da (“there”) +‎ sein (“to be”).

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Noun

dasein (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy) Being; especially the nature of being; existence, presence, hereness, suchness, essence
    • 1954, Otto Samuel, “The Relationship of Hereness Dasein”, in A Foundation of Ontology: A Critical Analysis of Nicolai Hartmann‎, Digitized edition (Philosophy), Philosophical Library, published 2008, page 62:
      Hereness (Dasein) might be perhaps be called more expediently, Now-Being (Jetztsein), ...

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Used by Goethe and adopted by Hegel. Further adopted and reinterpreted by Martin Heidegger in his "Being and Time".

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Verb

dasein

  1. Formerly standard spelling of da sein which was deprecated in the spelling reform (Rechtschreibreform) of 1996 .
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