heidegger

My teacher says this:

"I inauthentically make something my own—I appropriate it—when I can use it, when it becomes a tool, an everyday object. When I have the concept of the authentic, however, I realize that none of these things are really mine. They are the common stock of ordinary discourse and relation. But I can make them my own by explicitly taking them up as part of my projects. That does not mean that I own them. It means that I take responsibility for taking them up in the things that I do, as part of my being-in-the-world."

oo, responsibility. aww, heidegger i still love you.