Open AccessThe End of Life Is Not the Worst: On Heidegger’s Notion of the World
Author(s) -
Jan Völker
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
filozofski vestnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.103
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1581-1239
pISSN - 0353-4510
DOI - 10.3986/fv.42.2.06
Subject(s) - impossibility , life world , philosophy , earth (classical element) , epistemology , extinction (optical mineralogy) , possible world , aesthetics , political science , law , paleontology , physics , mathematical physics , biology
The article proposes to reconsider the late Heidegger’s examination of the concept of the world, as for Heidegger the eradication of all life on planet earth is not the most horrible thing that could happen. It is the impossibility of thinking the world that exposes us to something worse: the loss of our link with being. Following Heidegger, to think the world is not only necessary to prevent the extinction of life on earth, but, moreover, the loss of thinking the world lies at the beginning of the crisis we are living through.