A Theology of Love by Richard Smoley

Author:Richard Smoley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion/Theology
Publisher: Inner Traditions
Published: 2019-09-11T16:00:00+00:00

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BEING TOWARD DEATH

Martin Heidegger argued that man—or rather Dasein, the human being in the human condition—is a being toward death.1 By this Heidegger appears to mean that not only death, but the awareness of death, is the central fact of human life. He writes:

The fact that even everyday Da-sein is always already toward its end, that is, constantly coming to grips with its own death, even though “fleetingly,” shows that this end, which concludes and defines beingwhole, is not something which Da-sein ultimately arrives at only in its demise. In Da-sein, existing toward its death, its most extreme not-yet which everything else precedes is always already included.2

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