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Existentialism
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Although sometimes considered gloomy and nihilistic because of his emphasis on anguish and death in Being and Time, Heidegger was concerned with these negative aspects of human existence because they shed light on the nature of being. Being is revealed most dramatically by experiences that show the gap between nonbeing and being. The most profound such experience is reflection of the prospect of one's own nonbeing, that is, death, because this "possibility of impossibility" reveals the finitude of human being as both a limitation and an incentive to living in the world. Indeed, the prospect of death, functioning as a radical condition for the possibility of human experience, gives authenticity to human beings. -- by Thomas E. Wren |
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Philosophical Movements
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