Daybreak is a subtle move away from the ‘positivism’ of Human, All Too Human. The book begins by returning to the origin of morality, though with a modified model that emphasises evaluation and the drives as origins, and custom as mechanisms. There is an extended discussion of early Christianity in this light. It then turns to contemporary moral practices and social institutions (marriage, education, etc.). By the end of the book, it offers exhortations to a new, future, living and thinking way.
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In the phenomenon of falling, we have encountered something like fleeing in the face of death. The flee in the face of death is a fleeing that turns away from the face of death. That in the face of which one flees has been made visible in a phenomenally pleasing way. Against this, it must be possible to project phenomenologically how evasive Dasein itself understands its death.
However, the temptation, tranquillization, and alienation are distinguishing marks of the Being called "falling". As falling, everyday Being-towards-death is a constant fleeing in the face of death. Being-towards-the-end has the mode of evasion in the face of death. As a factical social arrangement, ' welfare work' is not a special case of that Being-towards-death which operates in a circumspective fashion. Its aim is one of fundamental ontology. Its function is not to fix and fixate upon a chosen direction in which Dasein might be able to turn towards itself towards its end. Nevertheless, this is not in the least decisive as to its kind of Being. One may argue neither decree prematurely that this "movement" is 'merely subjective', nor do we know anything about it except that it is nothing but the expression of universal over and above all, and that it has no 'subject' as its cause.
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