While you really should try and get through all 500 pages of Being and Time - the MacQuarrie Edition please!
Here is a short cheat sheet that will make you sound like you know what you are talking about... as long as you can keep your mouth shut afterwards!
1. Humans are Beings that care about what they are - we care about our lives, our surroundings.
2. Humans always take some perspective or active stand on their life. We are actually the sum of our stands.
3. In addition to #2 - Humans are simply what we do - there is no magical essence given to us by our parents or by a mysterious force ahead of time.
4. We are defined by how we live our life - all of our life - we are non-essentialist beings
5. You knew this was coming based on the title of the book - Our own existence will always have a Temporal structure that is unique to us: Throwness and Futurity and lastly Being toward the end.
Thank you verrrry much.... Elvis Heidegger has left the building.
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