We are not what we do, in the same way that we aren't our circumstances. We are so much more than our race, nationality, political affiliation, religion and social status. Some of these things are mere "accidents of nature" and others "social made accidents". It is true that what we do "does us" and also "makes" us in return. This is to say, we are who we are because of the lives we live and the actions we have taken. Object and subject are destined to interact. This is unavoidable. Heidegger's almost esoteric ontological proposal - Dasein, or "being-in-the-world." - is almost impossible to refute, at least if considered at its most basic: we are all beings in time and beings in space. When expressed in such a way, with words that lack emotion and humanity, it is understandable that one wants to dismiss this philosophical proposal. But despite the fact that Heidegger, alongside Kirkeggard, is an important foundat...