DEATH AND THINKING

• Authors: Stegmaier W.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The author presents the history of European thought about death since Socrates and Plato and accepts the recent stance of Levinas and Derrida. According to Hegel the life of spirit is the passing through other and other kinds of deaths. Kierkegaard claims that we can not think about absolute nothing (but we can threaten it). For Nietzsche death is the biggest truism, for Heidegger it is the most certain truth (human being is being to death) and for Sartre it is a brutal fact. Levinas and Derrida claim that thinking about death is the beginning of ethics.

Keywords

EN

DEATH -EUROPEAN THOUGHT ABOUT

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
• Journal: Analiza i Egzystencja. Czasopismo Filozoficzne
• Year: 2006
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 45-64
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Stegmaier W.

• Werner Stegmaier, Philosophisches Fakultaet, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitaet Greifswald, Rubenowstrasse 3, 17487 Greifswald, Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA03326871