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Heidegger és a halhatatlanság
Heidegger and Immortality

Author(s): Tamás Beck
Subject(s): Philosophy, Existentialism, Hermeneutics, Ontology
Published by: Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület
Keywords: immortality; forgetfulness of being; physiological probability; language

Summary/Abstract: In my brief essay I attempt to find out why there is no solution offered for the problem of immortality in Being and Time. Once I’ve eliminated a potential explanation from the aspect of the sociology of knowledge, I address the inevitable interconnection between the Catholic religion (largely abandoned by Heidegger in the book) and Greek ontology – blameworthy for the concept of forgetfulness of being. Next, I proceed to demonstrate how human mortality is not an ontological necessity, but more of a physiological probability. I do this by employing certain developments of modern biology. The hypothetical abandonment of the Heideggerian thesis of finiteness should not be related to the concept of the transcendental ego’s immortality in Husserl’s mature work. Conclusively, there appears to be no more fitting explanation for Heidegger’s abandoning the problem of immortality in Being and Time other than the one with which the unfinished nature of the book itself can be given a rationale to.

  • Issue Year: LXXXV/2023
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 113-117
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Hungarian
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