ABSTRACT
The notion of possibility stands at the centre of Heidegger’s account of human existence in BT. The idea of possibility proper to Dasein is not, we are told, the ‘freedom of indifference’ (libertas indifferentiae) but rather pertains to the very ontological constitution of this being. As Heidegger puts it:
Dasein is possibility that is delivered over to it (überantwortetes Möglichsein), thrown possibility (geworfene Möglichkeit) through and through. Dasein is the possibility of being free for its own ability-to-be (Freisein für das eigenste Seinkönnen). Possibility is transparent to itself in various possible ways and degrees.
