IPHP Q4 Week 6

The term dasein or being-towards- death is coined by -

• Soren Kierkegaard

• Friedrich Nietzsche

• Martin Heidegger

• Jean Paul Sartre

In Martin Heidegger’s concept of death, he focuses on the ___________

rather than death itself!

• Human Person as the subject

• Fear of death

• Anxiety about death

• Physical sickness

Martin Heidegger’s notion of existential anxiety can be best

understood by the infamous line, “________________”

• Live today, die tomorrow

• We are born to die

• Live life to the fullest

• We only live once

Death can be understood in two defining factors, ______ and ______.

• Life and Love

• Hope and Despair

• Fear and Anxiety

• Wonder and Change

This matter has no particular object in the concept of death, a feeling

of non-beingness.

• Fear

• Hope

• Despair

• Anxiety

This matter has a particular object, somehow a physical feeling

• Fear

• Hope

• Despair

• Anxiety

It is simply a kind of talk “which the herd or masses conduct and it

has a character of triviality.”

• Idle walk

• Idle talk

• Idle speak

• Idle look

According to the philosophy of death, there are two ways to face

death, _______ and _________.

• Escape and Accept

• Ignore and Runaway

• Respect and Honor

• All of the above

What do you think is the best thing to do before you die?

• Live life to the fullest

• Accept death and face it with your whole heart

• Live an authentic way of life

• All of the above

In the concept of death, Martin Heidegger teaches us that-

• Death is something we should be afraid of

• Death is the end of our lives

• Death is a certain reality, a fulfilment of man’s life

• Death is a joke, and the joke is on us