Janus The Two-face, Heidegger And Sartre's Views Of Death

The paper discusses the relationship of thanatopsis between Heidegger and Sartre on the aspects of exterior and interior relation. Janus in the topic derived from Sartre's discussion on death. Janus was divinity beast in Roman myth who appeared as gate or diprosopus. This metaphor shows the twofold sides of death vividly:On one hand, death was the termination of life,which extremely breathless; on the other hand, death was Life's termination,which as a part of life. The disscussion about death in and out can be concluded into two attitudes: to consider it as the negation of people's living or emphasize the connection between death and living. Sartre and Heidegger hold the two sides of thanatopsis each. Heidegger considered death as being-there or the possibility itself. He declared"being to death"or"freedom to death"; while Sartre considered death as haphazard of exterior life which can not attach significance to life.However, both Heidegger and Sartre's thanatopsis composed the same Janus diprosopus . When faced the living crisis they aimed to search outlet. Heidegger's thanatopsis was monolithic being through open out death straightly and search the root of being-living which made people regress to existence home. Sartre put death conception to the outside freedom of people's possibility. That meant to make it equate to freedom. Thus extrute the brunt choice and suffer the resist and surpass to people's rupture and dissimilar circumstance.