Editing Martin Heidegger (section)

====Authenticity====
Heidegger's term ''Eigentlichkeit'' is a neologism, in which Heidegger stresses the root ''eigen'', meaning "own." So this word, usually translated "authenticity", could just as well be translated "ownedness" or "being one's own".{{sfn|Varga|Guignon|2014|loc=§3.1}}{{sfn|Inwood|1999|pages=22–23}} Authenticity, according to Heidegger, is a matter of taking responsibility for being, that is, the stand that people take with respect to their ultimate projects. It is, in his terms, a matter of taking a properly "resolute" stand on "for-the-sake-of-which". Put differently, the "self" to which one is true in authenticity is not something just "there" to be discovered, but instead is a matter of "on-going narrative construction".{{sfn|Varga|Guignon|2014|loc=§3.1}}

Scholars Somogy Varga and [[Charles Guignon]] describe three ways by which Dasein might attain an authentic relation to itself from out of its "fallen" condition as "they"-self. First, a powerful mood such as [[Angst|anxiety]] can disclose Dasein to itself as an ultimately isolated individual. Second, direct confrontation with Dasein's "ownmost" potential for death can similarly disclose to Dasein its own irreducible finitude. Third, experiencing "the call of conscience" can disclose to Dasein its own "guilt" (''Schuld'') as the debt it has to itself in virtue of having taken over pre-given possibilities that it is now Dasein's own responsibility to maintain.{{sfn|Varga|Guignon|2014|loc=§3.1}}

Philosopher [[Michael E. Zimmerman]] describes authenticity as "resolving to accept the openness which, paradoxically, one already is".{{sfn|Zimmerman|1981|page=xx}} He emphasizes that this is a matter, not of "intellectual comprehension", but of "hard-won insight".{{sfn|Zimmerman|1981|page=xix}} Authenticity is ultimately a matter of allowing the ego to be "eclipsed by the manifestation of one's finitude".{{sfn|Zimmerman|1981|page=xxvii}}

Although the term "authenticity" disappears from Heidegger's writing after ''Being and Time'', Zimmerman argues that it is supplanted in his later thought by the less subjective or [[Voluntarism (philosophy)|voluntaristic]] notion of ''Ereignis''. This ordinary German term for "event" or "happening" is theorized by Heidegger as the appropriation of Dasein into a cosmic play of concealment and appearance.{{sfn|Zimmerman|1981|pages=xxiv–xxviii}}