16000-20

If we take these four significations together, the upshot is that history is that specific historizing of existent Dasein which comes to pass in time. In the following considerations, the ‘variations’ in which we are chiefly interested are those of end and totality; these are ways in which Dasein gets a definite character ontologically. As such, they should lead to a primordial Interpretation of this entity. Keeping constantly in view the existential constitution of Dasein already set forth, we must decide how wrong to Dasein ontologically are those conceptions of end and totality that first thrust themselves to the fore, no matter how categorially indefinite they may remain. The rejection of such concepts must be developed into a positive assignment of them to their specific realms. In this way, our understanding of end and totality in their variant forms as existential will be strengthened, and this will guarantee the possibility of an ontological Interpretation of death.