Existence in the case of Aristotle is that which has matter and form. It has a spatial and temporal being which may or may not be actually 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 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' amounted to nihilism.[1] The 'authentic existence' 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." [2][3]
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "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)
- ↑ https://rumble.com/v4pida2--red-pill-news-palestine-war-2024-04-11.html