The Passing of the World

by David Wemyss (May 2012)

Early Heidegger posits the authentic individual who, in comportment towards death, recoils from the emptiness of the organizational. In late Heidegger this matures into nuanced quietism, but the spirits hovering above the ashes are the same ghosts.

All these arguments and counter-arguments have a certain reasonableness about them, but they miss the mark from a Heideggerian point of view.

A cheering thought with which to conclude?

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