Sixty second philosophy: Heidegger and death

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Death is one of my favourite topics in philosophy. Let's see how much Heidegger we can unpack in sixty seconds!

Where we talk about Death & Heidegger. For some background on Heideggerian authenticity vs inauthenticity, take a look at part 5!

So many philosophers write on death, this is just one small piece of it. It’s human nature to want to preserve ourselves. And we should. Maybe I’ll talk about Camus and suicide one of these days. But I’m not talking about self-preservation here, I’m talking about embracing the fact of our mortality.

In one of Plato‘s dialogues, Socrates states that all of philosophy is preparation for death. Death has always been a fitting topic for me. If you’ve read my posts, watched my stories, or ever DM’d me, you probably picked up on the death thing.

I had my first existential crisis when I was 5. I’d lay in bed at night and think about the concept of an afterlife. I would get scared and cry. My mom would tell me that the afterlife was great because everyone I loved would be there. Through tears, I’d reply, “I don’t want to exist for eternity.” Maybe it wasn’t those exact words, but it was that sentiment. What kind of child has a crisis of existence that young? They say life makes sense backwards, maybe there’s something to that.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like I had one existential crisis and never again. No, you could say that I am attuned to existential crisis, or I am being-towards-existential-crisis. But I think that’s part of the process for me. If our default mode of existence is to fall into the way of the “they” (seriously, go watch part 5), then part of being-towards-death must be the constant cycle of pulling ourselves out of that.

When I joke about “raw existence” “the void” “the abyss” whatever, for me that’s every time I really truly reflect and interiorize death as my ownmost possibility. The moment where I seem almost to dissociate from the world for a second and there’s just this clarity for me. But part of that process is reliving that. It’s work. It’s practice. It’s weird. And I love it.
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I recommend reading the essay "Death, Nothingness and Subjectivity".

naturalisted
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im in love with death and this makes me feel better.

dontstop
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That's where you're wrong, you can be towards death or not, or exiled. Yeah, you can open the door for me but you shouldn't have to.

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