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is the fact that we are inescapably caught up in a world that precedes and conditions (often determines) the possibilities of our interactions within and to it.

is the idea that no one has asked us if we wished to be here or wished to be as we are.

no one has asked us if we wished to be here or wished to be as we are (arendt Willing 170).

is the idea that no one is responsible for man's being there at all, for his being such-and-such, or for his being in these circumstances or in this environment.

no one is responsible for man's being there at all, for his being such-and-such, or for his being in these circumstances or in this environment' (quote in Arendt willing 170)

is the idea that Human Dasein is thrown into a world that it never chose (this would later serve as one of the key ideas of the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus).

thrownness and projection. Human Dasein is thrown into a world that it never chose (this would later serve as one of the key ideas of the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus). Projection is the related and opposite term. We are not only thrown into an uncho- sen world, but also rise above that world and project our own possi- ble choices onto it.

is term referring to the fact that a mood tells us how things are going, and indicates that we are always “thrown” into a situation to which we must respond.

A mood tells us how things are going, and indicates that we are always “thrown” into a situation to which we must respond—for this reason, Dasein is marked by what Heidegger calls thrownness.

is identified predominantly, although not exclusively, as the manner in which Dasein collects up its past (finding itself in relation to the pre-structured field of intelligibility into which it has been enculturated).

at the most general level, thrownness is identified predominantly, although not exclusively, as the manner in which Dasein collects up its past (finding itself in relation to the pre-structured field of intelligibility into which it has been enculturated),

is not of our own making, and we can never get it into our grip; it is a basis that we must take over and can never produce.

Thrownness, like earth, is not of our own making, and we can never get it into our grip; it is a basis that we must take over and can never produce (Being and Time, 329-30/284).

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