Scheler’s Intuitive Knowledge of Mortality  

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Schumacher, Bernard N.

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Death and Mortality in Contemporary Philosophy, page 51-60.
Topik: Modern Man’s Attitude Toward Death Itself; The Certainty of Mortality Based on Observation and Induction or on Intuition; The Certainty of Mortality Based on Observation and Induction or on Intuition; Problematic questions raised by Scheler’s Thesis of an Intuitive Knowledge of Mortality
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There is something paradoxical about the human being. On the one hand, he is not content merely with simply being “carried along by [life’s] impetus”, to borrow Bergson’s expression, but rather seems to have a consciousness of his mortality and of the fact that he must and can die, that he “knows that it must die”, the fact that his death could occur at any moment – “Mors certa, hora incerta” (Death is a sure thing; the hour – uncertain). But on the other hand, to use one of Kierkegaard’s expressions, he lives by a deception, “a false l atterer” (he l atters himself in his thoughts by complacently preferring the security of the moment, procrastination, and postponement), and in the conscious or unconscious refusal to face death, a confrontation that is, according to Kierkegaard, the result of serious thought. I do not want to dwell on the reasons for this repression of death, but rather to discuss the way in which a human being arrives at the consciousness of his death. How does a human being arrive at the certitude that he must die, and what arguments form the basis for the statement that “death is the only certainty”? Heidegger goes so far as to describe death as the foundation for all certitudes. Contemporary philosophy proposes several answers: the intuitive, ontological, or innate knowledge of my death; knowledge obtained by inductive reasoning or interpersonal contact. In the following chapters I will examine these proposed explanations and give a detailed analysis of their supporting arguments.

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