historicality

is a determining characteristic of dasein. It is only on the basis of dasein's sense of its own past that anything like a 'world history' is possible.

Historicality is a determining characteristic of Dasein. It stands for that kind of Being that is constitutive for Dasein's 'historising.' For it is only on the basis of Dasein's sense of its own past that anything like a 'world history' is possible. [ref. 6, page 41] (munday)

is that by which dasein's motivation is always delineated. Dasein is as it already was.

The point to bare in mind here is Dasein's motivation in its 'my to be' is always delineated by historicity 'In the fact of its Being, Dasein is as it already was.' [ref. 6, page 42] (Munday)

is that in Dasein which has the effect of bringing the past (its heritage) alive in the present as a set of opportunities for future action.

Echoing the way in which past, present and future were disclosed as intertwined in the analysis of temporality, Dasein's historicality has the effect of bringing the past (its heritage) alive in the present as a set of opportunities for future action. In the original German, Heidegger calls this phenomenon Wiederholung, which Macquarrie and Robinson translate as repetition.

is the a priori condition on the basis of which past events and things may have significance for us.

In the final major development of his analysis of temporality, Heidegger identifies a phenomenon that he calls Dasein's historicality, understood as the a priori condition on the basis of which past events and things may have significance for us.

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historicality