One of the things that Heidegger thinks characterises Dasein is its ‘withness.’ Prior to being a subject, or a self, Dasein is always with. You will very well ask with what? Well, as we saw in a general sense last week, Dasein is always with world. As Being and Time progresses Heidegger starts to ask what else is Dasein with. One of the other things that Dasein is with, is things in the world and also others, or as he calls it mitsein (being-with). Dasein as mitsein is always with others in certain ways. This week then I want to explain how Dasein is ‘in the world’ already ‘with others,’ and also how being-with-others can take the form of two types of impersonal being (the ‘they’), inauthenticity and authenticity. I say both are impersonal, because they characterise Dasein, not specific subjects. Although, more on this as I progress.

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