Heidegger doesn't know where his loyalties lie. Is he a philosophical anthropologist or an existentialist?
Dasein is primarily das Man, he writes. One is what one does, and the one is any one, every one.
But this state of affairs is terrible, he thinks, because being any one robs us of authenticity.
I'm not saying Heidegger is wrong. In fact, I don't think he is. Truth be told, I don't even think he's wrong in moving from this descriptive claim to an evaluative claim.
This is the way things are, and from one point of view, it kind of sucks.
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