Module 3

Question 1

A German word meaning being-in-the-world

Answer 1

Dasein

Question 2

In this entities, his/her involvement has the character of utility. This means that things appear to the human person merely as a form of equipment or instrument, or as things that the human person can use either for his/her practical purposes or for his/her theoretical contemplation

Answer 2

Being-alongside

Question 3

In this entities, a human person’s involvement has the character of considerateness and forbearance which are best shown in moments when the human person empathizes with his/her fellow human persons

Answer 3

Being-with

Question 4

A very important dimension of a human person’s being-in-the-world. It refers to the fact that a human person’s existence in the world has the dimension of having a past, present, and future

Answer 4

Temporality

Question 5

A human person’s past which refers to everything about the existence of a human person that can no longer be changed

Answer 5

Facticity

Question 6

A human person’s future which refers to all the possibilities that a human person has and can choose to have. This includes all the projects that a human person can set for himself/herself to accomplish in the future

Answer 6

Existentiality

Question 7

A unique phenomenon connected to a human person’s existentiality and facticity. It is unique for being a “possibility” it belongs to the future, while for being “thrown” it belongs to the past or to the things we can no longer change

Answer 7

Thrown possibility

Question 9

Refers to the kind of existence in which a human person is not the one making decisions for himself/herself

Answer 9

Inauthentic experience

Question 13

Refers to the present of the human person. It is the state a human person is in when he/she lives in an inauthentic existence

Answer 13

Fallenness