We retain 'thrown-ness' as closest to the original and, perhaps, least misleading.' are too rich with ontic, anthropological connotations. Richardson: ' attractive translations such as ' abandon,' 'dereliction,' ' dejection,' etc. That's why 'thrownness' is the best English word for Geworfenheit.

Richardson, Geworfenheit 'must be understood in a purely ontological sense as wishing to signify the matter-of-fact character of human finitude'. It is simply a fact, not caused or grounded, but the condition of all causation and grounding. How can we account for this freedom? We cannot.

The thrower of the project is thrown in his own throw. The idea of the past as a matrix not chosen, but at the same time not utterly binding or deterministic, results in the notion of Geworfenheit-a kind of alienation that human beings struggle against, and that leaves a paradoxical opening for freedom: The very fact of one's own existence is a manifestation of thrown-ness. Awareness and acknowledgment of the arbitrariness of Dasein is characterized as a state of 'thrown-ness' in the present with all its attendant frustrations, sufferings, and demands that one does not choose, such as social conventions or ties of kinship and duty. The past, through Being-toward-death, becomes a part of Dasein. Geworfen denotes the arbitrary character of Dasein's experience in the sense of its having been born into a specific family in a particular culture at a given moment of human history. Thrownness ( German: Geworfenheit) is a concept introduced by German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) to describe humans' individual existences as being 'thrown' ( geworfen) into the world. Heideggerian ontological conception of the human condition

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