PHI 3377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dasein
3 Dec 2013
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Different kinds of knowing one knows that one dies but doesn"t accept it as something personal we look away don"t allow to penetrate our existence as finite beings. The they the way death is covered up in our everyday-relations. 297 the they is constantly trying to tranquilize the dying everything will be ok rather than face their own death which is impending alienates an individual from his/her own death. If you live in such a way as to be not genuinely aware of this fact, dasein deludes itself. Inauthenticity is an existential basic feature of human existence. Societies foster inauthenticity in terms of death. Making decisions based on the truth of existence. Death individualizes dasein it confront on an individual basis the idea of no longer being there. Not to be outstripped dasein can"t get past out. Dasein exists towards death but does not experience the actual event.
