in this letting-itself-come-toward-itself; in other words, in that it exists. This letting-come-toward-itself of the eminent possibility that it endures is the primordial phenomenon of the future. If authentic or inauthentic being-toward-death belongs to the being of Dasein, this is possible only as futural in the sense indicated now and to be more closely defined later. Here "future" does not mean a now that has not yet become "actual" and that sometime will be for the first time, but the coming in which Dasein comes toward itself in its ownmost potentiality-of-being. Anticipation makes Dasein authentically futural in such a way that anticipation itself is possible only in that Dasein, as existing, always already comes toward itself, that is, is futural in its being in general.
Anticipatory resoluteness understands Dasein in its essential being-guilty. This understanding means: taking over being-guilty in existing, to be the thrown ground of nullity. But to take over thrownness means to authentically be Dasein in the way that it always already was. Taking over throwness, however, is possible only in such a way that futural Dasein can be its ownmost "how it always already was," [326] that is, its "having-been." Only because Dasein in general is as I am-having-been, can it come futurally toward itself in such a way that it comes-back. Authentically futural, Dasein is authentically having-been. Anticipation of the most extreme and ownmost possibility comes back understandingly to one's ownmost having-been. Dasein can be authentically having-been only because it is futural. In a certain sense, having-been arises from the future.
Anticipatory resoluteness discloses the actual situation of the there in such a way that existence circumspectly takes care of the factical things at hand in the surrounding world in action. Resolute being together with what is at hand in the situation, that is, letting what presences [Anwesenden] in the surrounding world be encountered in action, is possible only in a making that being present [Gegenwärtigen]. Only as the present [Gegenwart], in the sense of making present, can resoluteness be what it is; namely, letting what it takes hold of in action be encountered undistortedly.
Coming back to itself, from the future [zukünftig], resoluteness brings itself to the situation in making it present. Having-been arises from the future in such a way that the future that has-been (or better, is in the process of having-been) releases the present from itself. This unified phenomenon of the future that makes present in the process of having-been is what we call temporality. Only because Dasein is determined as temporality does it make possible for itself the authentic potentiality-of-being-a-whole of anticipatory resoluteness which we characterized. Temporality reveals itself as the meaning of authentic care.
The phenomenal content of this meaning, drawn from the constitution of being of anticipatory resoluteness, fulfills the significance of