DEATH IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Abstract

In the introduction of the paper, the difficulties and problems of the ontic and ontological understanding of the world are discussed in the light of Heidegger’s fundamental ontology. Heidegger’s position on the inevitable belonging of man to the whole of being (das Seiende) is analyzed and the original ontological-phenomenological method is shown, with which he considers the difference between Being (das Sein) and there-being (Dasein) on a metaphysical level, basing his fundamental ontology on these concepts. He also builds on them the explanation of the experience of death as the end of the battle. For Heidegger, death is not the abolition of being, but only the dissolution of there-being in Being, whose characteristic is restlessness. In particular, possible answers to the questions: Do I have to die and does this being (Dasein), to which death arrives, complete itself in this way? At the end, they discuss everyday life and death in the relationship between being and being in the light of the philosophical dilemma of whether death exhausts every possibility of human existence. In the conclusion, similar, but also critical views of other philosophers on death are stated (Kierkegaard, Sartre...) and finally he concludes that in the ontological, ontic, and phenomenological view, death remains the most important open question not only of the philosophy of existentialism, but also of science.