solicitude

is what we feel for other Daseins just as concern is what we feel for pieces of equipment.

If “concern” is what we feel for pieces of equipment, what we feel for other Daseins is called “solicitude.”

is either helpful or harmful, relieving Daseins of responsibility, thereby dominating them, or restoring in other Daseins an authentic form of care.

Solicitude can be either harmful or helpful. The harmful kind leaps in and relieves the other Dasein of its responsibility, and thereby secretly dominates the other. But the other kind of solicitude leaps ahead and restores the other Dasein’s care to it in authentic form for the first time. Although Heidegger does not elaborate with any specific examples, this remains a very interesting remark about ethics.

solicitude, n.All

solicitude