The Meaning Of Death

Heidegger's thoughts about death Contains commendable elements. Our intention is to reveal them distinctly and completely in this article. The first and necessary condition on which this aim is to be reached should be that we have provided a new foundation for these "commendable elements" which are fixed originally in Heidegger's theory's structure. A foundation which is different from Heidegger's philosophical prospective ought to be laid firmly. So the other important task we have to take is that we must investigate into the structure of Heidegger's philosophy critically and establish a new prospective from which we can reveal these commendable elements' in our own thinking.One of these so-called "commendable elements" is the thinking frame which does not grant "binary oppositions" when comprehending death. It is not the thinking frame in which death have already been regarded as an opposite polarity to life by implication but represents the insight that we have only one-polarity life world and death could not be a thing outside this life world and opposites this one-polarity world. This is a wonderful and profound thought. The other important "element" we want to highlight is Heidegger's thought about the feeling. The feeling can not be realized as what common sense understand naturally. It is endowed with new meanings here. It is not a thing that can be defined as psychological book does. It also can not be considered as a thing that can be caused by life events. In a word, It can not be objectifcated into an object upon which we can reflect like reflecting upon a desk. Seen from this prospective, the feeling becomes an integrate world which represents itself without assuming the distinction between subject and object. It represents itself as the immediate and vivid life experience.It's very regretful that Heidegger didn't realize the inner relation between the idea of death which is not in the term of binary oppositions and the new idea about the feeling. Heidegger's philosophy is in transcendentalism. The idea of death in one-polarity thinking frame is rooted in "Dasein" which is transcendental concept. The feeling is identified directly as a concept of "Dasein's ontico-ontology" and is one of the three links of Destin's unfolding. In brief, the idea about death in one-polarity thinkingframe and the feeling implying one-polarity life world are represented in transcendental term and are very abstract. We never stick to the stand of transcendentalism. We have throw it away thoroughly and laid our philosophical foundation upon life experience absolutely. The idea about death in one-polarity thinking frame does not indicate transcendental concepts but is reflected its foundation of real life world which has its unification of one in a stratification of it. The stratification is called "life world of the feeling experience" as we have mentioned above.The idea about death we are going to interpret will be structured upon this new foundation of real life world. In fact, form this prospective, we see death as an objective fact disappeared. We only see the feeling experience being present immediately and vividly. This result will lead us into a way of ontology contemplation which is not the task to be finished in this thesis.