The preparatory interpretation of the fundamental structures of Dasein with regard to its usual and average way of being in which it is also first of all historical will make the following clear: Dasein not only has the inclination to be entangled in the world in which it is and to interpret itself in terms of that world by its reflected light; at the same time Dasein is also entangled in a tradition which it more or less explic itly grasps.