Heidegger's Theory Of Existentialism

This source stimulates the philosophical concept existentialism.The stimulus gives rise to several key existential theories: facticity and freedom, the idea of existential angst and the fear of not-being-dasein. The facticity that a girl is “somebody’s daughter” and the proceeding reaction propagates the idea that our reactions to facticity come to shape who we are. The reference to “anxiety’s grip” prompts the theory of Heidegger’s theory on existential angst and how it leads us to act inauthentically. Finally, being “scared to die” provokes the thought of Heidegger’s principle that in the face of death, we must live a life that justifies our own worth.

Heidegger developed the work of Husserl who supported Des Cartes with his idea of consciousness,

Finally, Husserl stated that as people, we are subjects living in a world of objects. However, Heidegger changes this subject-object theory and instead states “Being-in is not a ‘property’ which Dasein sometimes has and sometimes does not have, and without which it could just be just as well as it could be with it.” This is due to the fact that, as Sartre distinguishes, objects have both being-in-itself and being-for-itself. Through being-in-itself, humans, via their

As existentialism works on the principle that we are ultimately free, we can react to facticity, being-for-itself, in any way in which we please. We cannot attempt to justify our actions with emotions as we are responsible for the emotions we feel in the situation. The being-for-itself, facticity in this stimulus is that the girl has parents. In terms of being-in-itself, these are people that the “daughter” would like to keep happy, so she is left trying to “disguise her tears” as “they don’t ever wanna see you cry”. Existentialism may argue that she is the one choosing to suppress her emotions and it is her fault that she feels she owes it to her parents. However, this only works if we deny ourselves of human nature. If instead, we were to agree with Rousseau that we have “an innate repugnance at seeing a fellow-creature suffer”, it becomes easy to feel sorry for someone suppressing themselves to help others. However, the argument of this type of human nature does not allow for the diverse array of personalities that exist. Although I would feel an “innate repugnance” in witnessing any creature suffer, the same can hardly be said for