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If human existence is "uncanny," "enigmatic," etc., because it is uniquely temporal and historical existence, then it makes no sense to say, as Bultmann seems to say, that the uncanniness of existence has its basis in sin. H is indeed true that there are aspects of the uncanniness of my existence as I in fact experience it that would no doubt be otherwise, were it not for sin – -- my own sin as well as that of all my fellow human beings. But it is just as true that, even if one were to prescind from sin altogether, human existence would still be uncanny, enigmatic, etc., insofar as it was fragmentary existence capable of self-understanding and, therefore, burdened with responsibility for understanding itself authentically and leading its life accordingly.

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