Abstract

It is a conviction shared by Heidegger and by Christian tradition that human beings are unable, in their explicit self-interpretation, to know themselfes properly. „Properly“ means: to interpret themselfes according to the way they know themselfes pre-consciously. The present essay follows a path from Heidegger’s analysis of „boredom“ via early Luther’s concept of „humility“ to Perone’s theory of „feeling“ and, by this, tries to show that this pre-conscious self-awareness consists in a feeling of self. In the paragraph on Luther, it is shown that according to Luther this feeling of self is an implicit awareness of the contents included in the term of „God”.