In the chapter of the World Hood of the World, Heidegger explains how in order to understand the worldhood of the world, we must understand the environment around us, since the environment is the world’s ‘everydayness’. ‘They’ produces an overall judgement and decision which sets a level, which makes the individual ‘level down’ in order to fit into the averageness of ‘they’. There are a lot of actions and things we do for no particular reason, however, there is an expectation of us to do them because ‘they’ have made it seem that way, such as to shake hands with others. To further explain, ‘they’ are those who have set standards for everybody, ‘they’ can be mainly understood as society. Without Angst, according to Heidegger we are constantly caught up in the ‘they’ and in our ‘everydayness’. This makes you think and start to wonder about what you should be doing in this one life that you have, Angst can make you question your life choices, making you as true to yourself as you could ever be. This feeling can be achieved through thinking about one’s death, and that reality that it can happen to everyone, even you.
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