Module 6

Question 1

In Heidegger’s view, the most authentic thought about existence comes from this

Answer 1

Wisdom

Question 2

5 existential features of death that Heidegger identifies

Answer 2

• Certain
• Indefinite
• One’s ownmost
• Nonrelational
• Not to be outstripped

Question 3

It is simply meant that death is a possibility that will surely actualize, whether a person likes it or not

Answer 3

Certain

Question 4

While a person is certain about the fact that he/she will someday die, he/she is, however, not certain about when that someday will be. Death, therefore, is something impending, something that can happen at any moment

Answer 4

Indefinite

Question 5

Death is in the sense that a person cannot relegate his/her own death to anybody. Nobody else but the person can face his/her own death

Answer 5

One’s ownmost

Question 6

In meeting his/her own death a person cannot be with somebody else. The person has no choice but to face his/her own death alone. It is what separates a person from all his/her relations or engagements with the world-both equipmental and public

Answer 6

Nonrelational

Question 7

In the sense that the possibility of death cannot be taken away from a person; and this includes the fact that a person cannot choose not to die or not to have death as one of his/her possibilities

Answer 7

Not to be outstripped