Heidegger's Theory Of Non Being

Marcel considered one of the most significant existentialists in his time. In 1910, Marcel received his doctor's degree in logic from the Sorbonne, as he became interested in the intellectual life. Marcel and many of European writers influenced by the World War I, so he became fascinated with matter of death. He was one the famous figures in renaissance as he became superior in drama, philosophy, music, politics, and theology. Throughout his adult life, he addicted to piano. In literature, Marcel wrote more than 30 plays. His most major philosophical works involve Being and Having (1949), The Mystery of Being, Volume I and II, Man against Mass Society and Creative fidelity. He is not a methodical sophist. Soren Kierkegaard ideas affected

George W.F Hegel writes in Phenomenology of Spirit that the self-consciousness “exists only being acknowledged,” and that a human individual can only recognize itself as having self-consciousness through meeting another human individual and realizing their shared traits and otherness. This initial process leads to conflict between the two entities, as they must fight over the other being the essential being while the other is an object. This conflict is the struggle, and at the end of the struggle one being becomes the master and the other the slave. This process is built on the concept of fear, specifically fear of death and becoming a thing as opposed to a self-conscious being. This paper will analyze that concept of fear, and through

Predestination is the aspect of foreordination whereby the salvation of the believer is taken to be effected in accordance with the will of God, who has called and elected him, in Christ, unto life eternal (Bromiley, 1979). Throughout Christianity, the various sects and branches of this religion often have their own understanding and notion of this doctrine.

In the sixth meditation, Descartes postulates that there exists a fundamental difference in the natures of both mind and body which necessitates that they be considered as separate and distinct entities, rather than one stemming from the other or vice versa. This essay will endeavour to provide a critical objection to Descartes’ conception of the nature of mind and body and will then further commit to elucidating a suitably Cartesian-esque response to the same objection. (Descartes,1641)

He argues that the body and soul are two elements that have the same underlying substance. He maintains that a person’s soul is the same as his nature of body; however, he argues that the mind differed from other parts of the body as it lacked a physical feature. In this case, he maintains that the intellect lacks a physical form, and this allows it to receive every form. It allows a person to think about anything, including the material object. In this case, he argues that if the intellect were in a material form, it could be sensitive to only some physical objects. Nevertheless, the non-material form allows individuals to think about anything.

For the subsequent chapter, I would then tackle the existentialist concepts of Heidegger, dealing with, as we said previously on Freedom, Anxiety and Authenticity. This is of course is to be taken and discussed keeping in mind man. An overview of Heidegger’s notion of freedom is that, he thinks that man is free, in relation to the care structure. The care structure deals with three concepts which is facticity, falleness and existentiality. Facticity deals with what he called ‘throwness’. Man is thrown into this world, into the specific place he lives, specific norms he’s born to, all the things he was given, these are the things that man cannot change about himself. These are the givens of life. So how is man free despite being just thrown here and given the life he has? Well, for Heidegger, though we were given this specific life, we have the capacity to overcome it. Falleness on the other hand deals with us men, being fallen from our destiny. For Heidegger we have a capacity or capability to reach our potential. But once we fall away from that potential, we then are living in falleness. This falleness is the characteristic of an inauthentic life. This inauthenticity is when one fails to be a person for himself, when he follows to be a They-Self of Heidegger and get swept up by The Chatter. The Chatter is a coinage of Heidegger referring to the social forces that man follows. For example, they say to be fair-skinned is beautiful, and one follows that notion, that chatter, one is then a They-Self in that respect. Existentiality, on the other hand is in contrary of falleness. Wherein in existentiality on follows his

Central to Sartre’s idea of humans creating their own meaning by free choice is his assumption of the non-existence of God, one which was popular after World War II. He argues that without God, existence precedes essence. As there

If man knows his own being, then man knows that bare nothing cannot produce a being

Karen Armstrong and Robert Thurman wrote their essays, “Homo religiosus” and “Wisdom”, respectively, describing two words, “being” and “void”. These words, although have opposite meanings, describe the same spiritual experience that come about through different means. By definition, “being” is a kind of fullness or completeness of existence and “void” is emptiness or a negation of existence. Armstrong believes that “being” is the equivalent of the Buddhist’s “Nirvana” while Thurman believes that “void” is the equivalent of the Buddhist’s “Nirvana”. Although these terms seem to be opposite in the literal sense of defining them, they lead to the same outcome: not being at the center of one’s own universe. We define an object’s existence by its

Everyone has to face death. There are some people who fear death because it will take them away from their loved ones and rip them off what they have earned throughout their life, such as money, honor, and power. However, there are people claiming that they do not fear death since they have experienced many wonderful moments in their lifetime. Death sounds so terrifying because it means an end of someone’s life. Reading Epicurus’ “Letter to Menoeceus”, I will argue that a reason to not fear death is that we do not exist anymore after we die.

Discussing the existence of a soul and an afterlife can be a controversial subject, because frankly, as humans we do not know what lies beyond the body’s material form. Materialists argue that once the body is dead, it is the end. Everything we know is material and we are material beings, therefore there is nothing to move on to an afterlife. Dualists, however, take on a different perspective. Although our bodies are material, there is something else that lies within us. This “something” is an intangible, inconspicuous existence known as the soul.

definition of a whole by being composed of all of these parts (and, therefore, be the limit for these parts) in which exist the indivisible oneness and being, and can be many (145a). In this way, the antinomies of neither having parts nor being whole in Deduction 1 and of both having parts and being whole in Deduction 2 are maintained in light of oneness as indivisible wholeness.

René Descartes was a French Philosopher who challenged the popular explanations of the Scholastic-Aristotelian philosophers’ reasons for their existence, earning himself the name; the Father of Modern Philosophy. His most popular quote, “I think, therefore I am,” was just the beginning of his challenge. Through long, tedious thought processes that drove many mad, he was able to discount the reasoning of existence solely based on the presence of the senses. The modern philosophical world has based a large number of theories of existences on the Meditations of the First Philosophy, which is Descartes’s treatise. The first and second meditation of this dissertation, introduce the beginning of his arguments for his existence and state other arguments, which justify his reasoning. Descartes argues that his existence is not

Sartre Freedom and Anguish: In their belief system we are created for the sole reason that the

In Sartre’s Existentialism is Humanism, he gives an example of what Sartre views as abandonment that his student had to go through. Sartre’s definition of abandonment is referring to God not existing and having to choose your own fate without the help of anyone else due to no one having the ability to make our decisions by ourselves. Sartre’s Student was faced with a proposition of going