Editing Being and Time (section)

===Time===
Heidegger believes that time finds its meaning in death, according to Michael Kelley. That is, time is understood only from a finite or mortal vantage. Dasein's fundamental characteristic and mode of "being-in-the-world" is temporal: Having been "thrown" into a world implies a "pastness" in its being. "The present is the nodal moment which makes past and future intelligible," writes Lilian Alweiss.<ref>Alweiss, L., [http://lib.csu.ru/ER/ER_Philosophy/fulltexts/AlweissL.pdf "Heidegger and 'the concept of time'"], ''[[History of the Human Sciences]]'', Vol. 15, Nr. 3, 2002.</ref> Dasein occupies itself with the present tasks required by goals it has projected on the future.<ref>Kelley, M., [https://iep.utm.edu/phe-time/ "Phenomenology and Time-Consciousness"], ''[[Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]''.</ref>

Dasein as an intertwined subject/object cannot be separated from its objective "historicality," a concept Heidegger credits in the text to [[Wilhelm Dilthey]]. Dasein is "stretched along" temporally between birth and death, and thrown into its world; into its future ''possibilities'' which ''Dasein'' is charged with assuming. ''Dasein's'' access to this world and these possibilities is always via a history and a tradition—or "world historicality".