Philo_Final4_Ch.12: MARTIN HEIDEGGERS PHENOMENOLOGY OF DEATH by Manny Dy (Summarized by Marnel Tuble) 1.

Man a being-in-the-world (Heidegger); Dasein (There-being) the being of man; lets beings be (manifest) and renders all encounter with them possible 1.1. Dasein realizes its own possibilities once thrown into the world; Care the fundamental structure of Dasein 1.2. Potentiality never exhausted as long as man exists in the world; lost when man dies 1.3. Death the period/ situation when man reaches his wholeness; the transition of man from Dasein to nolonger-Dasein; death of others our first experience of death; Death makes man no longer a person but a thing 2. Being-towards-death and care 2.1. Death the uttermost not-yet of man towards which he comports himself; the possibility of my-nolonger-possible; the possibility of being cut off from others and from things; Fear the feeling of dread which is concerned with something determinate; Anxiety the feeling of dread which is concerned with something indeterminate 3. Everyday Being-Towards-Death Inauthenticity 3.1. Impersonal they talks of death as a case of death or a mishap that frequently occurs; they makes death ambiguous and hides the true aspects of its possibility; therefore inauthentic 3.2. Thinking about death considered by the they as a sign of cowardice, of fear, and of insecurity; anxiety taken as a sign of weakness in the face of death 3.3. Indifferent Tranquility -- the alienation of man from his ownmost non-relational potentiality for beingtowards-death 3.4. Being-Towards-Death described as a constant fleeing in the face of death 3.5. Inauthentic Man evades the higher certainty of ones death; stops worrying about death and busies himself in the urgency of concern 3.6. Death always present in the very being of man 4. Authentic Being-Towards-Death 4.1. Authentic response neither evasion nor giving new explanations for death 4.2. Possibility description given to death by an authentic man in relation to his very existence 4.3. Suicide type of death which demolishes all the potentialities of man 4.4. Being-Towards-Death authentic anticipation of the possibility of death 4.5. Anticipation act which reveals to man that death means the measureless impossibility of existence; delivers man from becoming lost in possibilities 4.6. Authentic being-towards-death situation where man realizes that death is his ownmost possibility;situation which means projecting oneself upon his ownmost potentiality for being

4.7. Death Event which individualizes man for it belongs to ones own self 4.8. Freedom the value gained when man accepts death as his possibility 4.9. Certainty of death event which corresponds to the certainty of being-in-the-world 4.10. Anxiety state of mind that is open to the constant threat of indefiniteness; where man comes face to face with the nothing of possible impossibility of his existence; makes man become certain of the totality of his potentiality for being 4.11. Anticipation reveals to Dasein its lostness in the they self, and brings it face to face with the possibility of being itself (Heidegger) 5. Karl Rahners Notion of Death 5.1. Death Mans act of self-affirmation in regards to his acceptance or refusal to be his authentic self which is open to transcendence; constitutes the highest act of freedom of man to say yes or no to his openness to God; involves the whole of man; no more concupiscence 5.2. Concupiscence the evil that lessens the power of man to choose between good and evil; the power that prevents a total commitment either to good or to evil 5.3. Death where man reaches the climax of his commitment; brings a definity to the life-long decision of man with regards to his destiny; the culminating point of ones life