I wish I had been there, or you should have been there are often heard about great events. Usually it was a great sporting contest, like England winning the rugby world cup in Sydney with an amazing drop goal in the dying minutes of the game.
Yer man Heidegger coined the expression ‘dasein’ to explain our sense of being.
Like a lot of philosophical concepts, a sense of being takes a lot of unfolding…I should probably read what he has to say.
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