Being and Time (1927)
(Dasein’s Possibility of Being-a-Whole, and Being-towards-Death)
Martin Heidegger
A. Dasein
• When it reaches its wholeness in death, it simultaneously loses the Being of its “there”
• By its transition to no-longer Dasein, it gets lifted right out of the possibility of experiencing this transition and of understanding it as something experienced
• Dasein can thus gain an experience of death, all the more so because Dasein is essentially Being with Others. In that case, the fact that death has been thus 'Objectively' given must make possible an ontological delimitation of Dasein's totality.
B. Dasein of Others
• When it has reached its wholeness in death, it is no-longer-Dasein, in the sense of Being-no-longer-in-the-world. …show more content…
• "Dying" may also be taken physiologically and biologically.
G. As potentiality-for-Being,
• Dasein cannot outstrip the possibility of death. Death is the possibility of the absolute impossibility of Dasein.
• Its existential possibility is based on the fact that Dasein is essentially disclosed to itself, and disclosed as ahead-of-itself.
• On the contrary, if Dasein exists, it has already been thrown into this possibility. Dasein does not, proximally and for the most part, have any explicit or even any theoretical knowledge of the fact that it has been delivered over to its death, and that death thus belongs to Being-in-the-world.
• Thrownness into death reveals itself to Dasein in a more primordial and impressive manner in that state-of-mind, which we have called "anxiety".
• Anxiety in the face of death is anxiety 'in the face of' that potentiality-for-Being
- That in the face of which one has anxiety is Being-in-the-world itself.
- That about which one has this anxiety is simply Dasein's potentiality-for-Being.
- Anxiety in the face of death must not be confused with fear in the face of one's
(Dasein’s Possibility of Being-a-Whole, and Being-towards-Death)
Martin Heidegger
A. Dasein
• When it reaches its wholeness in death, it simultaneously loses the Being of its “there”
• By its transition to no-longer Dasein, it gets lifted right out of the possibility of experiencing this transition and of understanding it as something experienced
• Dasein can thus gain an experience of death, all the more so because Dasein is essentially Being with Others. In that case, the fact that death has been thus 'Objectively' given must make possible an ontological delimitation of Dasein's totality.
B. Dasein of Others
• When it has reached its wholeness in death, it is no-longer-Dasein, in the sense of Being-no-longer-in-the-world. …show more content…
• "Dying" may also be taken physiologically and biologically.
G. As potentiality-for-Being,
• Dasein cannot outstrip the possibility of death. Death is the possibility of the absolute impossibility of Dasein.
• Its existential possibility is based on the fact that Dasein is essentially disclosed to itself, and disclosed as ahead-of-itself.
• On the contrary, if Dasein exists, it has already been thrown into this possibility. Dasein does not, proximally and for the most part, have any explicit or even any theoretical knowledge of the fact that it has been delivered over to its death, and that death thus belongs to Being-in-the-world.
• Thrownness into death reveals itself to Dasein in a more primordial and impressive manner in that state-of-mind, which we have called "anxiety".
• Anxiety in the face of death is anxiety 'in the face of' that potentiality-for-Being
- That in the face of which one has anxiety is Being-in-the-world itself.
- That about which one has this anxiety is simply Dasein's potentiality-for-Being.
- Anxiety in the face of death must not be confused with fear in the face of one's