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Mortality: The Human Condition of Finitude
Mortality philosophy: how finitude shapes the human condition, Heidegger on being-toward-death, Seneca on practicing death daily, and why our limited time gives life its urgency.
Mortality is the human condition of finitude: we are beings who will die, and who know that we will die. Mortality philosophy asks what this knowledge does to us, what it means for the value of life, and how living with it well is possible.
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher whose Being and Time reoriented phenomenology toward the question of Being, finitude, and authentic existence in the face of death.
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An evidence-led introduction to Seneca, Stoic philosopher, writer, and teacher of practical wisdom on anger, death, discipline, and the good life.
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