False Declaration. Heidegger’s Early Relationship with the Afterlife Cover Image

Hamis deklaráció. A korai Heidegger viszonya a halál utáni élethez
False Declaration. Heidegger’s Early Relationship with the Afterlife

Author(s): Tamás Beck
Subject(s): Metaphysics
Published by: Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület
Keywords: thanatology; correction; conception of afterlife; comprehension of death; nothing; sense-making;

Summary/Abstract: In my essay I attempt to prove that, even though Heidegger was reluctant to openly take sides on the issue of immortality in his work Being and Time, the very concept of the book seems to be built upon the presumption of the rejection of human immortality. I identify the belief in the afterlife as an archaic death-concealing strategy which was – as an alternative to Heidegger’s idea of death – constructed to falsify the sense of the term.

  • Issue Year: LXXXIII/2021
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 103-113
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Hungarian