Monday, 29 May 2017

AN EVALUATION OF CONCEPT OF AUTHENTICITY IN MARTIN HEIDEGGER

UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA NSUKKA

FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

TOPIC:
EVALUATION OF THE CONCEPT OF AUTHENTICITY IN MARTIN HEIDEGGER
A SEMINAR
SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COURSE: PHIL.472
(SEMINAR IN CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY)
BY GROUP SIX:
ODO, SOLOMON ANETOCHUKWU   -        -        - (2013/188496)
ODOH, LYNDA CHIOMA   -        -        -        -        - (2013/188479)
ODOM, CELESTINA  -        -        -        -        -        - (2013/190621)
OGBONNA PRECIOUS CHINYERE     -        -        - (2013/186772)
OKONJI EKENE ANDREW         -        -        -        -        - (2013/187341)

SUPERVISORS:
DR ANTHONY C. AREJI
REV. FR DR INNOCENT. I. ENWE
MAY, 2017.





1.0 Introduction
            We will like to start with a short story of a little girl who initially had passion to be a chef (cook) but her parents forced her to study law. She later finds herself in philosophy. Up till today, she has never been herself. This is because in adopting another’s desires or preferences as her own, she loses sight of her own possibilities. Rather than considering her parent’s opinion to study law, she would be acting with more authenticity if she was to listen to her inner voice of conscience which originates from within, that is, being herself.
            Commonsensically, authenticity means something that has an original nature and is unique.  The translation ‘authenticity’ is actually a German  neologism invented by Heidegger, the word Eigentlichkeit,  which comes from an ordinary terms, eigentlich, meaning ‘really’ or ‘truly’, but is built on the stem eigen, meaning ‘own’ or ‘proper’. So, the word might be more literally translated as ‘ownedness’,  ‘or ‘being owned’, or even ‘being one’s own’, implying the idea of owning up to and owning what one is and does.1 ‘Ownedness’ here is in the sense of possessing what is truly one’s  own, what truly belongs to one.
            In this paper, we are going to analyze and expose as well as evaluate the concept of authenticity in Martin Heidegger. By authenticity, Heidegger mean the realization of oneself by taking him/herself out of ‘they’ which is the life of everydayness and focus on himself as an individual by realizing that he is an individual different from any other person and as such does not follow the life of everydayness but follows his own lifestyle as an individual. In this work, we shall see different manners Heidegger associated authenticity with Dasein, that is, man.

1.1     Short Biography of martin Heidegger  
Martin Heidegger was born in a small town known as Messkirch in Sothwest of Germany in the region of Black Forest on September 26th 1889. Messkirch was then a quit, conservative, religious rural town, and as such was a formative influence on Heidegger and his philosophical thought. He had an early interest in theology and priesthood, but soon shifted his attention to philosophy. He began teaching philosophy at Freiburg in 1915.
After receiving his doctorate in philosophy, Heidegger worked for five years as Husserl’s assistant. In 1923 he left to fill a chair in philosophy at University of Marburg. He later succeeded Husserl as chair of philosophy in Freiburg in 1929. Heidegger went on to become a leading exponent of phenomenological and existential philosophy which he blends together in his most glorified work Being and Time (Sein und Zeit) published in 1927. In this monumental work, Heidegger addresses issues relating to authenticity and inauthenticity and as modes of existence, exploring the Being of human which he called ‘Dasein’ (being-there) in its temporality.
He spent his last years in seclusion in a mountain retreat in the Black forest, emerging only occasionally to give a public lecture. Martin Heidegger died on 26th May, 1976. So, he lived for 87 years. According to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, he is “widely acknowledged to be one of the most original and important philosophers of the 20th century”.2
Among people that influence Heidegger include Franz Bretano whose book On the Manifold Meaning of Being according to Aristotle motivated and created a great impression on him to investigate the meaning of Being. He was equally influenced by existentialism of Kierkegaard, Dostoevski, and Nietzche. Finally, he was influenced by his master Edmund Husserl whom he dedicated his work Being and Time to.


1.2     Heidegger’s notion of Dasein as a Preliminary to Understanding authenticity 
The term Dasein refers both to the human being and to the type of being that humans have. The root meaning of the noun is “being there” or “being here”. For Heidegger, the primary objective of phenomenology of Dasein is a hermeneutic in the primordial signification of this word, where it designates this business of interpreting. It is through this interpretation that the authentic meaning of Being, and also those basic structures of Being which Dasein itself possesses, are made known to Dasein’s understanding of Being3. Dasein’s Being cannot have the character of an entity or thing instead, one must recognize its human-specific implication. Therefore, Dasein can be viewed as a “Being that does”. Dasein is used as a door to understanding other being.
For Heidegger, Dasein may exist in either one of two modes, authenticity or inauthenticity. Authentic existence can only come into being when individuals arrive at the realization of who they are and grasp the fact that each human being is a distinctive entity. Once human beings realize that they have their own destiny to fulfill, then their concern with the world will no longer be the concern to do as the masses do, but can become an ‘authentic’ concern to fulfill their real potentiality in the world.4 In general, it is Dasein that oscillates between authenticity and inauthenticity, deepening and widening its understanding of its situation through the hermeneutic circle and thereby through new interpretations of temporality.
2.1 Inauthenticity as fallenness of Dasein 
            Fallenness is an aspect of our Being-in-the-world. For Heidegger, it is as Being-along-with-the-entities-in-the-world. This is what tends to lead to an inauthentic way of living. Heidegger seems to suggest fallenness as simply a neutral aspect of our everydayness. In this sense, we are necessarily and continually “falling in with” the things in the world that elicit our concern. He also says that this immersion in the world involves co-existence with other people. The world is always the one that Being shares with others.  The world of Dasein is a with-world, Being-in is a Being-with others’.5 In this sort of fallenness, we become ourselves in the whirlpool of endless activity. Thus, instead of authentic relationship with others, we identify ourselves with the anonymous impersonal entity which Heidegger calls the “they” or the “one”. The “they” becomes the authority, the standard of the way things are and is created by the voices of gossip and social pressure. Within this inauthentic version of the public world, “Everyone is the other and no one is himself.6
            As Dasein is Being-along-with-the-world, we engage with things that are ready-to-hand within the world as well as with other human beings. This implies that we tend to become absorbed into our situation, losing ourselves in the world of the impersonal anonymous ‘they’. Thus, we experience this fallenness within our present situation.
            It will be necessary to state here that fallenness and its accompanying inauthenticity are inevitable features of Dasein’s condition, meanwhile, this kind or level of existence is not condemned as morally deficient, for it is not something we can either choose or totally avoid.  
2.2 Everydayness and the ‘They’ as the Features of Inauthentic Existence
            As already seen in fallenness, Dasein’s inevitable tendency is to fall into an everyday mode of existence, an absorption into the common world of experience that is most readily at-hand. This everyday way of being Heidegger names the ‘they’ (das mann). The ‘they’ is everyone and no one in particular.  In this everyday mode of existence, we forget ourselves. It  “dissolves one’s own Dasein completely into the kind of Being  of ‘the others’,  in such a way, indeed, that the others,  as distinguishable and explicit, vanish more and more”. This everyday mode of being is the common world of experience made up of fads, styles, behaviours, and vernacular, in which we automatically and unknowingly participate. Most of the time, the ‘self’ which each of us is, is derived from the common understanding and possibilities which “they’ define for us-the clothes we buy in shops, the notions  and ideas we hold about current issues, the activities and events in which we engage etc. Heidegger says: “The ‘they’, which supplies the answer to the question of the ‘who’ of everyday Dasein, is the ‘nobody’ to whom every Dasein has already surrendered itself…”8
            We should realize that this everyday mode of being is not an authentic way of being. In it, we have not really found ourselves- in fact we have lost our true selves. Sometimes we bury our potentialities and natural gifts either in fear of what ‘they’ will say or that those attribute, in our individual mind, may not be in fashion with general feature of the society as the ‘they’ have already structured it. This can undermine our innate ability to creativity and innovation. This is reflected in Heidegger’s quote: ‘there is a “leveling off” or a “dimming down” of one’s possibilities “to what lies within the range of the familiar, the attainable, the respectable meaning, that which is fitting and proper9. This mode of existence is indeed inauthentic; it implies that one consider his choices to be pre-given and just accept the situation he has been drifted into or  grown up with as though he had no possibilities.
3.1 Authenticity Vis-a-vis Being-towards-Death
            The phenomenon of death has been interpreted as Being-towards-the-end and of doing so in terms of Dasein’s basic state. In Being-towards-death, Dasein comports itself towards itself as a distinctive potentiality for an end. Dasein realizes himself by knowing fully well that his existence is individualistic, that is, it does not follow the life of everydayness which is the life of “they” (the way things have been publicly interpreted). Heidegger maintains that Dasein facing the inevitability of death is a key to authenticity. Therefore, an authentic Being is a Being-towards-death. The existential conception of death has been established and there with, we have also established what it is that an authentic being towards the end should be able to comport itself.
            There is also another aspect to authenticity. “Authentic Being-towards-death cannot evade its ownmost non-relational possibility or cover up this possibility by thus fleeing from it”10 In this sense, one tends to flee from the self into the world in order to seek refuge in the impersonal “man” or “one”. With such flight into the world, one gets locked up in the world of forfeiture which characterizes mediocrity because it does not free one to make decisions or to commit oneself to responsibilities. In other words, an authentic Being does not run away from his responsibilities due to fear of death but rather, he faces any situation or challenges he will meet. Heidegger finds that facing your challenges and the inevitability of death is a key to authenticity. For him, “realizing that I am a being towards death opens up the awareness of the me-ness of me.11 This, according to him is what individualizes one.
            We may now summarize our characterization of authentic Being-toward-death as Heidegger had projected it existentially; “anticipation reveals to Dasein its lostness in the they-self and brings it face to face with the possibility of being itself, primarily unsupported by concernful solicitude, but of being itself, rather, in an impassioned freedom towards death.12 This freedom has been released from illusions of the “they” and which is certain of itself and anxious.   
3.2 Anxiety (Angst) and Authenticity
            Heidegger associated authenticity to anxiety. For him, it is when Dasein truly reckons with the reality of death and owns that its fate is sealed by the limitations death imposes, our finitude, that the everyday world falls away. These are moment of anxiety. Anxiety brings Dasein face to face with itself as an individual self; it reveals that Dasein is “the only kind of thing which it can be of its own accord as something individualized in individualization.13 This shows that in anxiety, Dasein encounters itself as an individual, ultimately alone. For instance, think of what happens to people the moment they receive a diagnosis of cancer or another terminal disease. Think of what happens more typically to university students when they receive a diagnosis of HIV or are involved in a serious car accident. The dread and anxiety experience in that moment are uniquely their own. There is nothing anyone does for them except consolation or giving them words of encouragement.  In fact, they are completely alone with the knowledge that they could be facing the end. Stumpf observes:
I cannot indefinitely avoid confronting my true self. Anxiety intrudes. For Heidegger, anxiety is not simply a psychological state, but rather a type of human existence. Nor anxiety similar to fear. Fear has an object, such as a snake or an enemy against which it is possible to defend ourselves. But anxiety refers to nothing, precisely to no-thing. Instead, anxiety reveals the presence of “nothingness” in our being. There is no way to alter the presence of nothingness in the center of our being-the inevitability that we shall die.14
The summary of everything is that anxiety helps us to affirm our authentic self and thereby see transparently what and who we are. We will equally discover that in our inauthentic existence, we have been trying to do the impossible, namely, to hide the fact of our limitations and temporality. When seized by anxiety, we become strangers to ourselves: our ordinary identities recede, and the everyday lives we live become as uncanny as the world around us. Suspended in anxiety I am not this or that person anymore, but an undefined being whose only characteristic is being-there. This pure being-there, according to Heidegger, is our most basic existence. In facing the nothingness revealed by angst all the activities I engage in and all the things I represent in everyday life fall away as so many roles and masks.15
4.1 Authenticity in Relation to Temporality (Finitude)
            Temporality as commonly conceived has to do with time. Time as generally known has triple structures; past, present and future. As a temporal being, Dasein is essentially historical; it follows  that Dasien’s  past  must be appropriated for its own authentic future so as to constitute  the authentic self; its heritage is the past which allows authentic-being-its-self, fully, historically. According to Heidegger, being authentic  necessitates facing up to one’s  own temporality-no one can  escape death, and confronting the fact of the inevitability of one’s death forces one to embrace existence.  Only once one acquaints himself with “the finitude of [his] existence,” or with the possibility of no more possibilities, can Dasein be snatched “back from the endless multiplicity of possibilities, which [include]… those of comfortableness, shirking, and taking things lightly”16.
In authentic resoluteness Dasein realizes its radical finitude by anticipating death, by taking death into account in each and every of its project, and by choosing its own possibilities,  letting itself move towards its own self. In going towards its self, Dasein selects from a whole range of possibilities which past generations inherited and in turn have bequeathed to him and makes them its own.
            The ultimate ground of authentic existence and the ontological meaning of the being of Dasein, is accordingly temporality. According to Demske,
temporality is the innermost  meaning of being-unto-death in its full reality as the unity of the three moments of death, guilt, and situation-as the triple unity of orientation toward death, existential guilt, and existing in a situation –constitute the whole being of Dasein and is thus identical with concern.17
            In conclusion, temporality allows for things to matter, if only one allows his finitude to awaken him and make him aware. In its essence, “care is grounded in temporality”.18 Also, because only Dasein can determine what matters to it. Dasein must be the one who ultimately chooses the kind of future it is to obtain. In that no one else can die for it, death “lays claim to an individual Dasen”.19 In facing our finitude, we find that we are always future-directed happenings or projects, advancing towards our death. For that reason we are motivated to live authentic life. Temporality in its unity individuates by holding the entire structure of human existence together and making it possible for Dasein to grasp its existence in it totality.  
4.2 Conscience, Resoluteness and Authenticity    
            Heidegger in Being and Time discussed the voice of conscience as that which constantly and persistently reminds us of our true self, that is, our authentic existence.  Heidegger explains: “One must keep in mind that when we designate the conscience as a “call”, this call is an appeal to the they-self in its self; as such appeal, it summons the self to its potentiality –for-Being-its-self, and thus calls Dasein forth to its possibilities.”20
It is when Dasein frees itself from the “they” that the call of one’s conscience becomes an authentic way of knowing what it ought to be doing. For according to Heidegger, “conscience summons Dasein’s self from its lostness in the ‘they’”21 So, in order to authentically understand the calling of one’s conscience, it becomes imperative that one first accepts oneself as an individual. Mansbach gave a detail analysis of how Heidegger associated conscience with authenticity. He observes:
 Heidegger construes conscience as a call of the anxious self from its feeling of uncanniness. Being absorbed in the “they,” being an inauthentic self, Dasein listens to others and fails to hear its own self. The call of conscience is that which breaks down idle talk, the inauthentic talk which binds Dasein to the crowd. It makes Dasein aware of its inauthentic mode of existence, and calls Dasein to its own self. The call is not a voice from outside, but an unmediated call of the self to its own self which must be distinguished from listening to others. The latter is a mediated listening to one’s self, and thus inauthentic.22
As a matter of fact, we are adversely influenced by the activities going on in the world since we have been thrown to the world, that is, there are various variables that drive our action and make us act contrary to our originally true self, it is the noisy voice of conscience that calls us back and reminds us of our authentic self.
            Resoluteness has to do with hearing the call of conscience. It is a distinctive mode of Dasein’s  disclosedness. Demske sees it as:
The existential structure of proper listening to the call of conscience, the attitude arising from willingness to acknowledge and accept one’s own existential guilt, and to be summoned back to authenticity. Resoluteness is required if Dasein is to find its way back to its true self. It is thus necessary conditions of authentic existence.23
            Resoluteness helps us to practically observe and practice what our conscience informs us, that is, separating our life from inauthentic life of everydayness. However, resoluteness does not entail complete extrication from the world because we are already thrown to the world, that is, we are Being-in-the-world and also Being-with-others. This is made clear in Being and Time;
Resoluteness, as authentic Being-one’s-self, does not detach Dasein from its world, nor does it isolate it so that it becomes a free-floating “I”. And how should it, when resoluteness as authentic disclosedness, is authentically nothing else than Being-in-the-world? Resoluteness brings the self right into its current concernful being-alongside what is ready-to-hand, and pushes it into solicitous Being with others.24

5.1 Evaluation
            From the foregoing, we have seen how Heidegger has variously expressed the concept of authenticity. It is therefore noteworthy to remark that Heidegger in his Being and Time invented and made use of many concepts which were not in existence before. The manner he plays with language, that is, various hyphenations or re-definition of concept et c. made his philosophy too esoteric,  full of jargon and too abstract to be relevant. This often throws many readers off balance ipso facto leading to misunderstanding, misinterpretation or rather total lack of understanding. Bramman states that many philosophers criticize Heidegger’s theory of Being as preposterous nonsense, and his idiosyncratic use of language as obfuscating and conceptually muddled.25
            Again, for the fact that Heidegger made it clear that Dasein can either exist authentically or inauthentically, one wonders the essence of treating authenticity at all. For Heidegger, authentic existence and inauthentic existence as well are natural modes of existence of Dasein which Dasein cannot avoid. The implication of this is that inauthenticity has no moral deficiency. But then, how do we become open to the possibilities of our existence in an authentic way if fallenness or inauthenticity is our natural condition? One  will easily notice the contradiction here that authenticity and inauthenticity cannot be reconciled but Heidegger will always teach that Dasein is a Being that  concern, that is, Being-in-the-world (facticity/thrownness),  Being-with (Fallenness) and Being-ahead-of-itself (Existence)  and should also be  authentic by being itself. To the question raised earlier, Heidegger will answer that this new mode of existence (authenticity) comes on us “against all expectation and against our will “in a way that is “never planned, prepared or willingly accomplished by ourselves.26 If this is so, then, is authentic existence that we have no control over  really authentic? If that authentic existence is devoid of our will or choices, then it is automatic and programmed hence never authentic at all.
            Moreover, the idea of autonomy, privacy, individualism or subjectivism just as in the; philosophy of Kiekegaard as a way of being authentic is somehow morally questionable. If in the course of living authentic life, one resorts to live according to his personal, individualistic standard of morality without appealing to the universal standard of morality that everybody lives, then that person’s action, will not be morally justifiable.  So, the so-called subjectivism or individualism as authentic existence fans the ember of relativism. Again, how do we verify if one is really living an authentic life or not since authenticity is being oneself and listening to one’s own conscience?  The issue is that the so-called authentic life can equally be faked and how will we know since human mind is inaccessible.
            Another point worthy of notice is the issue relating to imitation or emulation. Authenticity will always emphasize that one has to be him or herself, that is, one is not supposed to do anything simply because others are doing. But then, does it mean that we cannot learn or copy something good from one another or rather from others and still remain authentic? We doubt.
            All these notwithstanding, Heidegger’s notion of authenticity is imbued with many lessons. Authentic existence emphasizes self control.  Park observes:
Unless we find ways to wrest control our own lives from society , all of our decisions will continue to be made for use by the unnoticed  forces of the cultures in which we live… we are carried along by the ‘nobody’,  without making any real choices, becoming ever more deeply ensnared in inauthenticity.  This process can be reversed only if we explicitly bring ourselves back from our lostness in the ‘they’.27
Bringing back ourselves here connotes being master of ourselves, that is, controlling ourself or self-control.
            Again, authenticity in Heidegger helps us to realize and reflect on our finitude and temporality kcbepis commented thus:
If we can make a stand about our being-toward-death we will undergo profound transformation. In this transformation, we reflectively step back from the distraction and dissipation of everyday life in order to approach a more coherent set of realistic possibilities.28
            The cognitive awareness of our finitude and temporality will motivate us to make proper use of every opportunity that might come our way since we have already realized that many things here in the world are vanity of vanities.
            Having seen the weaknesses and the strengths of Heidegger’s philosophy of  authenticity, our thesis statement is therefore that one becomes authentic when he/she starts doing away with life of pretence and hypocrisy and also will be ready to willingly own up to the responsibilities of his/her actions and inactions.
5.2 Conclusion
            In summary, Heidegger would suggest that for each and every man, whether or not he or she is philosophical by inclination, there is a reckoning with the reality of authenticity and inauthenticity, the need to hearken to the call of conscience and to be resolute in a way that guides the choices Dasein makes. While we are destined to fall away from this authentic mode of existence into the world of everyday concern that we build our lives by decisions we make and the tasks we undertake every day, being a certain way, and being invested in certain values, rather than others, do result in a different totality and quality of experience.
Endnotes
1.              Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Authenticity (September 11, 2014). Retrieved on 9th May, 2017. Website: https: // Plato. Stanford. Edu/enteries/authenticity./
2.              W.J. Korab- Karpowiz, Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Retrieved on 18th May, 2017. Website: WWW.iep.utm.edu/heidegger./  
3.              Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. Jonhn Macquarrie and Edward Robinson, (UK: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1962), 62
4.              M. Warnock, Existentialism (Oxford: Oxford University press, 1970) as quoted in What Heidegger Means by Being-in-the-World, Roy Hornsby (ed.) Retrieved on 10th May, 2017. Websit: http://royby.com/Philosophy/pages/dasein.html
5.              Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, 155
6.              Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, 165
7.              Martin Heidegger, Being and Time,  164
8.              Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, 165
9.              Martin Heidegger,  Being and Time,  239
10.             William F. Lawhead, The Voyage of Discovery: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy (United States: Wadsworth Group, 2002) 541
11.             Martin Heidegger, Being and Time , 288
12.             Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, 311
13.             Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, 232
14.             Samuel E. Stumpf and James Fieser,  Philosophy: History and Problems, (New York: Mc Graw-Hill Higher Education, 2003) 456
15.             Jorn K. krammann, Heidegger: Nothingness and Authentic Existence.  Retrieved on 10th May, 2017 from https: // faculty. frostburg. edu/ phil/ forum/m Heidegger. htm
16.             Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, 435
17.             James M. Demske, Being, Man and Death: A key to Heidegger (Kentucky: the University Press of Kentucky, 1970), 49
18.            Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, 434
19.             Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, 308
20.             Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, 319
21.            Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, 319
22.            Abraham Manshach, Heidegger on the Self, Authenticity and Inauthenticity  (Iyyun: The  Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly, 1991), accessed on 9th May, 2017. Website:  htt: //www.jstor.org/stable/12335070 4
23.            James M. Demske, Being, Man and Death: A key to Heidegger, 42
24.            Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, 344
25.            Jorn K. Bramann, Heidegger: Nothingness and Authentic  Existence.
26.             Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, 320
27.            James Park, Our Existential Predicament: Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, and Death, (Minneapolis, MN: Existential Books: WWW. Existential books. Com. 5th edition-2006) 226-227.
28.            Kcbpis, Heidegger and Authenticity (Epis Worldwide Blog, Sept 1, 2010) Retrieved on 9th May, 2017. Website. https: //episeatle. Word press.com/2010/09/01/ Heidegger-authenticity






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