Heidegger constantly thinks toward toward freedom. Freedom is questioned, approached, and investigated everywhere in his writings and lectures.
Derrida on Death in Aporias
For Derrida, death is a border that has no borders, resembling God, and is thus an aporia. Derrida...
De Beauvoir on Death: Between Sartre and Heidegger
Between de Beauvoir and death, there is a non-simple relatedness, in which Sartre’s Being and Nothingness and Heidegger’s...
The Roots of Existentialism: Socrates
Between existentialism and the thinking-philosophizing of Socrates, there is a relatedness; that is, there are similarities, continuities, and...
Plato on Happiness and the Happy Life
Happiness, for us, is a feeling; short-lived or abiding. Happiness, for Plato and in ancient Greek thought, refers...
Heidegger on Authenticity: Realizing Finitude
Heidegger thinks the authenticity and inauthenticity of Dasein from out of a specific relatedness into which he places...
Plato on Death and Afterlife
Death is a recurrent theme in the thinking-philosophizing of Plato. The fear of death, Plato says, burdens humans...
Heidegger on “Being-Toward-Death”
Death is one of the questions around which the whole thinking of Heidegger revolves. Death is the inevitable...
Sartre on Death in Being and Nothingness
In Being and Nothingness, Sartre criticizes Heidegger’s conception of death in Being and Time and offers his own...
Camus on the Absurd in The Stranger
The absurd, for Camus in The Stranger as well as in The Myth of Sisyphus, is the meaninglessness...
Heidegger on Death in Being and Time
Heidegger discusses death at length in Being and Time. This article introduces and explains Heidegger’s existential conception of...
Camus on Absurdity in The Myth of Sisyphus
Camus begins The Myth of Sisyphus with the question of suicide, but it is the thought of the...
Schopenhauer on Death and After-life
For Schopenhauer, death is central because it is linked with the “will-to-live”. Death also opens up a space...
Schopenhauer on Death and Philosophy
Schopenhauer constructs a philosophical system around and upon what he calls the “will-to-live” and thus implies death and...