Editing Existence

'''Existence''' in case of Aristotle is that which has [[matter]] and [[form]]. It has a spatial and temporal [[Being ('Being' as such)|being]] which may or may not be actually [[Experience|experienced]] (as not ''experiencing'' was the case with Pre-Socratics and their focus on 'Physis' or 'nature', e.g. Democritus' ultimate, indestructible atoms of matter in motion) but it "exists" regardless. It is different from [[reality]] as '''existence''' entails things which ''endure'' in time and space, whereas what is '''real''' does not necessarily "exist" (the '''real''' is ultimate and has [[Metaphysics|metaphysical]] wholeness or is absolute in the Hegelian sense in all-inclusive mind or spirit). '''Existence''' is also contrasted with [[essence]].

For Heidegger, [[Dasein]] has the question for '''existence'''. For him the 'inauthentic '''existence'''<nowiki/>' amounted to nihilism.<ref>https://open.substack.com/pub/rtsg/p/the-end-of-modenity-heidegger-and?selection=35e28cc0-54dc-4041-bf09-348dc3f69892&utm_campaign=post-share-selection&utm_medium=web</ref> The 'authentic '''existence'''<nowiki/>' involves approaching the fundamental questions of existence, as it was put by Darya Dugina (Platonova) in a Heideggerian vein: ''"Man is thrown into the world and he is in illusion. He must fight in this illusion for the sake of awakening."'' <ref>''"Man is not the lord of beings.  Man is the shepherd of Being.  Man loses nothing in this 'less'; rather, he gains in that he attains the truth of Being.  He gains the essential poverty of the shepherd, whose dignity consists in being called by Being itself into the preservation of Being’s truth.  The call comes as the throw from which the thrownness of Da-sein derives.  In his essential unfolding within the history of Being, man is the being whose Being as ek-sistence consists in his dwelling in the nearness of Being.  Man is the neighbour of Being."'' - Martin Heidegger (Letter on Humanism, 1947)</ref>