Being-towards-death And Authentic Existence Of Human Being

The question——what is the authentic existence of human existence——has always been there, but from the perspective of contemporary philosophy, it is not difficult to find that traditional metaphysics cannot give a satisfying answer. Even the questioning on human existence has also created a kind of ’bias’, for the certain reason that the traditional metaphysics cannot really grasp the meaning of the human, or just the part of the issue is understood somehow.In the presence of the existence of human being involves the problem of death. To a certain extent, it is because human beings are limited, so we can ask the meaning of existence.This limitation is fundamentally because people have to die. People will die someday,so we will reflect on our meaning of life and ask ourselves how we should live.Traditional metaphysics can not grasp the meaning of human existence,so it can no grasp the meaning of death and authentic existence of human being.Heidegger provides a method and a clue for us in Being and Time. Although Heidegger’s works mainly are aimed at the meaning of being, it is a great way to discuss the existence of the human being, because there is a close relationship between the Dasein and the being itself. Heidegger’s discussion on human, death and authenticity is very unique, and the reason why it is unique lies in the innovation of Heidegger’s philosophical methods, which we call it Formal Indication. It is the practice of this meth. Based upon it, we could obtain a proper understanding of the death and authentic existence of the human being. From the perspective of Formal Indication, we can see why the traditional metaphysics missed a series of problems to describe the authentic existence of human when reflecting the traditional philosophy. Putting attention on the method, whilst Ancient Greek philosophy emphasizes content-sense, and Kant’s and Husserl’s transcendental subject philosophy emphasizes relation-sense, Formal Indication emphasizes enactment-sense.This article is trying to understand the interpretation of Heidegger’s thought, which is more profound understanding of our death, and why we are often in a state of falling. Heidegger’s exploration of the phenomenon of death will help us to understand the meaning of death more deeply.We understand our existence in the attitude towards death, further recognize that we are responsible for our own existence and have the freedom to make choices.In the face of death as the inescapable fate freely, we call ourselves from the state of falling to achieve the state of authentic existence.