Societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent members..
For Sartre (1969), facticity signifies all of the concrete details against the background of which human freedom exists and is limited.
For example, these may include the family, the historical period, and the country where we were born, as well as the inevitable prospect of our death..
Society is a concept used to describe the structured relations and institutions among a large community of people which cannot be reduced to a simple collection or aggregation of individuals.' ( 1).
Society does indeed possess objective facticity
And society is indeed built up by activity that expresses subjective meaning
It is precisely the dual character of society in terms of objective facticity and subjective meaning that makes its reality sui generis (P
Berger and T Luckmann)The hermeneutics of facticity involves an understanding of Dasein in its particularity and in its "Today" as a factical, living being
Precisely because hermeneutics is Dasein's interpretation of itself as it is underway toward itself, factical life cannot be objectified
Existence is a reflexive or relational tension between “facticity” and “transcendence,” where we are constrained by our facticity but simultaneously endowed with the freedom to exceed or transcend it
The human being is, as Ortega y Gasset writes, “a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half transcending it” (1941, 111)
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