Martin Heidegger Accomplishments

Martin Heidegger, a 20th century philosopher, believed that there is a progression of being that lasts for our whole life and until our deaths. According to Heidegger, we spend our lives constantly trying to fully constitute our being. We, as beings, are constantly trying to get towards being by understanding the nature of our existence. We are trying to strive towards having a full grasp of being by progressively trying to get to it. It is something that we are constantly trying to achieve but are ultimately unable to. It is also something that we spend our whole lives trying to achieve, but never manage to do. We are, as a result, incomplete because we try to get to something that we don’t have. We try to constitute our being but our

Individual Daseins are full of things that need to get accomplished. Each individual Dasein presumably has a unique list of things that they want to accomplish. Beings spend their whole lives trying to accomplish those things. We are constantly trying to become fully accomplished, getting everything on our to do lists completed. The task of trying to accomplish is something that we are constantly trying to do, and something that we cannot control. According to Heidegger, to fully accomplish all of the things that we want to do and to accomplish is to become a fully accomplished and realized individual. When we accomplish all of our to do’s, we are no longer striving to accomplish our to do’s. Instead, we fully become back to the beings who we were when we were born. We are then able to understand and constitute our being, which is the thing that we have been striving to do for our whole

Not yets are like a debt because they are outstanding, or a wholeness achieved by adding pieces. They are things that are missing but have the potential to be fulfilled. Not yets are also something that is innate in Dasein because it is something that is always part of Dasein, and is there until Dasein’s end. During life however, Daseins spend their lives trying to fufill the not yets. Dasein is in fact full of not yets, which also means that they are full of the potential to