(Translation: English version of Italiano version)
Anguish is part of Fenomeni esistenziali per Heidegger. These are tools that, as in the Esempio di Praxis per Aristotele, allow Dasein to reveal itself to itself.
Anguish is not, as happens in fear, this or that entity encountered in the world, but it is the world itself as such. When in a state of anguish, Dasein senses the meaninglessness of everything that normally makes sense to it.
Anguish causes man to discover his own freedom.
However, this is not a freedom without constraints. Human freedom is – states Heidegger – a “finite freedom”, that is, it is not infinite like the creative freedom that the philosophical-theological tradition attributes to divine omnipotence.
Dasein is forced to concretize its freedom from time to time in a specific choice which inevitably excludes other possible choices. This automatically brings me back to Burkeman’s concept of freedom in limitation.
And this is where we arrive at the concept of Thrownness. Man is “thrown” into a world that he did not choose and that is unknown to him.