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Concern (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠chosen as a term not because human beings are mostly practical and economic, but because their very Being is care.

Concern (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a problematic absorption with entities in the world; an absorption that distracts us from the roots of our own existence.

Concern (n.) still ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠clings to a future, only not the real one: a future the present breeds for itself and then dresses up as care for mankind and culture.

Concern (n.) for ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the other, in Heidegger’s ‘advancing’ sense, does not take over his worries but hands them back — freeing him for his own concern and sending him ahead of himself, into the world.

Concern (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the way of being shared by producing, looking after, using, giving up, undertaking, interrogating, discussing — and even neglecting, renouncing and taking a rest are its deficient modes.

Concern (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a way of arranging time consisting of bringing that which has been placed under one's care into the present... by a certain way of managing it, one makes available that which is not yet available.