Being-free for death compresses Dasein into the simplicity of its chosen fate

Evidence

Death was also given a key role by Heidegger in the distinction between authentic and inauthentic historical existence. Only Being-free for death gives Dasein its goal outright and pushes existence into its finitude. Once one has grasped the finitude of one’s existence, it snatches one back from the endless multiplicity of possibilities which offer themselves as closest to onethose of comfortableness, shirking, and taking things lightlyand brings Dasein into the simplicity of its fate. This is how we designate Dasein’s primordial historicizing, which lies in authentic resoluteness and in which Dasein hands itself down to itself, free for death, in a possibility which it has inherited and yet has chosen. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 119

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines authentic resoluteness and fate as the mechanism making Dasein genuinely historical rather than drifting.
• XREF: connects to: Recognizing death’s contingency actually frees us from its alleged constraint.; All determination is surpassing, and Dasein directs it toward itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 213
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Recognizing death’s contingency actually frees us from its alleged constraint.; All determination is surpassing, and Dasein directs it toward itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 213

Broader Connections

• All determination is surpassing, and Dasein directs it toward itself #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 213
• Recognizing death’s contingency actually frees us from its alleged constraint. #complicates (0.72)