About the relationship between Dasein and human nature, time and eternity
Proposition 1: Plato says: Time is a moving image of eternity.
Proposition 2 (second claim): Immortality means the world - the fabric of space - without the existence of matter, energy and time. In other words, eternity means a world empty of everything, without beginning and end.
Proposition 3 (Third claim): Heidegger says: the self-conscious and other-conscious existence of Dasein, which is man, is subject to time. Or in other words, the meaning of being a human depends on the temporary existence and temporality of existence.
Argument and conclusion for the first and second claims:
One of the models simulated in supercomputers, in relation to the theories of the end of the world, is that after all the matter and energy in each galaxy is swallowed by its central black hole, that black hole either individually or in the vicinity of the black hole. After merging, under the influence of a phenomenon called Hawking radiation, the central bodies of other galaxies will gradually lose their mass and begin to evaporate. Then, when the last black holes have completely lost their mass and evaporated, and the fabric of the space The existence of matter and energy is completely depleted, time also becomes meaningless and only the world without matter, energy and time exists. If this hypothesis is true, then propositions 1 and 2 can be concluded with this argument
Argument and conclusion for the third claim:
In "Being and Time" Heidegger says: Existence is a function of time. That is, the meaning of being human is a temporary existence, in the interval between birth and death. In other words, the meaning of human existence is the subordination of time, and since both time itself is limited (in accordance with the reasoning and conclusion for propositions 1 and 2) and the time of our life as a self-aware and other-aware existence (Dasein) is limited. and it ends with our death, therefore, if we want to understand what it means to be authentically human, it is necessary to constantly project our life on the horizon of our death. What Heidegger calls "being towards death". This is the relationship between Dasein with the temporality of human existence (which is the nature of man) and with the limitation of time itself, and in a way immortality (which is actually the meaninglessness of the concept of time through the absence of Dasein - the material of Dasein is matter and energy - in the context of space). And the meaning of being human and perhaps its importance lies in this.
14 January 2023
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