Being-one-self The ethics of care in Being and Time, and its possibilities for the 21st century man

Abstract

Martin Heidegger, Being and Time’s author, develops a criticism around the massification tendency 
presents on the contemporary society. This criticism shows that “Dasein” is lost into the “Das man”, this 
state of loss mean that men has scarified his individuality to accept the domination of the mass society, 
which Heidegger call “the others”. As his ideas remain alive, in this text we want to analyze the present 
of this discussion and the applicability of Heidegger’s ideas to the present time. We will start presenting 
Heidegger’s ethical project as the answer to the state of loss into the “Das man”. We will explain the 
fundamentals of Heidegger’s criticism using paragraph 27 of Being and Time, then we will see how this 
ethic could be useful for 21st century society by stablishing links with Byung Chul Han theory, where he talk 
about our society as hyper-consumerist, tired and unable of being amazed. At last, we want to conclude 
showing that being authentic, as Heidegger puts it, is the way that takes the individual ahead to his self
knowledge and to be responsible of his “One Being-self”