Martin Heidegger and Zhuangzi’s concept of death

• Main Author: Cheong, Terence Ming Wei
• Other Authors: Dimitris Apostolopoulos
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Humanities::Philosophy
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/78928
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Martin Heidegger is one of the few Western philosophers to depict death as a contribution to the perfection of being. He came up with the notion of Dasein not perishing but experiencing its own demise with death standing before humanity as something to be anticipated. When man leads an authentic att...