EREIGNIS

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====== corruptionis ======

ii. The Being-guilty (Schuldigsein) which belongs primordially to Dasein’s state of Being, must be distinguished from the status corruptionis as understood in theology. Theology can find in Being-guilty, as existentially defined, an ontological condition for the factical possibility of such a status. The guilt which is included in the idea of this status, is a factical indebtedness of an utterly peculiar kind. It has its own attestation, which remains closed off in principle from any philosophical experience. The existential analysis of Being-guilty, proves nothing either for or against the possibility of sin. Taken strictly, it cannot even be said that the ontology of Dasein of itself leaves this possibility open; for this ontology, as a philosophical inquiry, ‘knows’ in principle nothing about sin. (BTMR)