leicht   und schwer  , schwierig (easy and difficult) - First introduced in SS 1920   as categories intrinsic to the self-world: in contrast with the impersonal ease and ultimate security of the theoretical domain, the original motive of philosophizing, which in view of its orientation to actual Dasein   is more than a science, is to revive the unease stemming from the distressed concern (Bekümmerung, later Sorge  ) inherent in life. Various Augustinian themes - I am become a question to myself, life is a trial, etc. - in SS 1921 bring out the biblical roots of the theme that "life is hard." In GA61  , the Aristotelian account of the "endlessness of fallibility" (GA61:107ff.) through excess and defect, hyperbole and ellipsis, is used to elaborate the same categories. The Introduction of Oct 1922 (pp. 3f.) identifies the tranquilizing tendency to make things easy for oneself with the inertia (pendency) of falling. Thus, BT will continue to speak of the "tendency to take things lightly and make things easy" in the Anyone, which serves to "unburden Dasein of its being" (SZ   127f.). SS 1924 associates this comforting sedation with a metaphysics of presence which since Parmenides   takes its orientation from the moods of hedonism. [Kisiel  ]