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Being-toward-death
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Being-toward-death is a life’s relation to its possibility of ending, and Heidegger calls one way of holding that relation anticipation. The readings weigh competing interpretations and distinguish anticipation from predicting demise or producing anxiety.
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Heidegger: being, a shared world and its limits · Lesson 5 of 12
Anxiety and a life that can end
Heidegger distinguishes anxiety from fear and treats death as a possibility that bears on how a life is lived. The lesson compares the readings of Blattner and Hoffman, questions the priority given to anxiety and asks for no personal disclosure.
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Heidegger: being, a shared world and its limits
Begin with familiar encounters and follow Heidegger’s questions about being, a finite life, truth, art, dwelling and technology. Examine what the arguments explain, what they leave open and how they fare under political and ethical criticism.