In-der-Blog-sein

Roger Kimball, in The New Criterion's Armavirumque ruminates on death:

And the so-called existentialists--Sartre, Heidegger, and Co.--brought in the fact of death early and often. (Heidegger even defined man as a 'being-towards-death.')

In that sense of existentialists, which includes Sartre and Heidegger in the same tent, we should also include Epicurus who put it succinctly earlier:

While we are, death is not; when death is come, we are not.

That tent would be supported by both philosopher's including freedom as consequence.

We may now summarize out characterization of authentic Being-towards-death as we have projected it existentially: anticipation reveals to Dasein its lostness in the they-self, and brings it face to face with the possibility of being itself, primarily unsupported by concernful solicitude, but of being itself, rather, in an impassioned freedom towards death --a freedom which has been released from the Illusions of the "they", and which is factical, certain of itself, and anxious.
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