ABSTRACT
Our brief discussion of the friend as the voice of conscience implied a connection between Dasein’s willingness to attend to that voice and its anticipation of its death. In the sections to be examined next, Heidegger argues that these two elements of Dasein’s authenticity are simply different facets of one and the same mode of existence. This prepares the ground for outlining the ontological preconditions of Dasein’s Being as care, thereby definitively establishing an internal relation between the Being of Dasein and time. In so doing, Heidegger explicitly develops two other themes also highlighted at the end of the previous chapter: first, that to understand Dasein’s Being is to understand another aspect of its internal relation to the nothing; and, second, that the conclusions established in his text control the ways in which that text is written and should be read, hence that the content and the form of authentic philosophical writing must be properly related to one another.
