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REVIEWER: PHILO-FINALS  Death is certain, but it is also a mystery.

(Last push, todo na ‘to!)  The law of entropy states that anything that
exist has an end.
VIKTOR FRANKL  Death comes unexpectedly.
 He is considered the father of logotherapy.  For the Filipinos, death is absurd because it
 Humans have the innate capacity to comes when it is least expected.
transcend their conditions.  The Filipinos believe that death is an
 Freedom does not exist in vacuum; to be ultimate reality in which everyone is equal.
free means to be free conditions.  Death is absurd because it is the
 All persons are biologically, psychologically contradiction of human desire for life.
and sociologically destined.  It is in dying that we are able to really live
 Human has the power to transcend all the our lives.
factors that condition freedom.  Buddhist concept of life and death:
 A human person is a conscious being. A All beings, including humans, are
human person is a responsible being. A impermanent.
human person is a meaning-driven being.  Hindu and Christian concepts about death:
 Our awareness of death enables us to realize They believe in the salvation of the
values within our lifetime. soul.
 Platonic concept about death:
KARL MARX The human soul is eternal.
 It is not the consciousness of human person  Dasein - Term used by Heidegger to refer to
that determines his or her condition, but a human being. It literally means being-in-
rather, it is a human person’s condition that the-world.
determines his or her consciousness
 Death -It refers to a human phenomenon an
B.F. SKINNER awareness of which may lead a human
 an American psychologist and social person to live an authentic life. It refers to
philosopher. the possibility of not being there in the
 There is no autonomous agent in human world anymore.
person; his or her behavior is conditioned by  Fallenness - Term used by Heidegger to
external stimuli. refer to the conditions to which a human
 A person is not free because his/her actions being is thrown into.
are conditioned by external factors.  Facticity - Term used by Heidegger to refer
 The family has taught us economic, moral to the present condition of a human being.
and spiritual values.  Existentially - This is the term used by
Heidegger referring to Dasein’s future.
SIGMUND FREUD
 Authentic Experience - This refers to the
 Father of psychoanalysis
term used by Heidegger referring to the kind
 Human freedom is impossible because
of life wherein the individual lives the life
human behavior is determined by mental
he or she chooses, the life he or she can call
states which humans are not aware of.
 There are three levels of the mind, the his or her own.
conscious level, the pre-conscious level and  Inauthentic Experience - Heidegger used this
the unconscious level. term to refer to Dasein’s entrapment in the
 A human person has no control over the world of the “they.”
working of unconscious level of the mind.  “Know thyself”-Socrates
 “Ignorance is root cause of suffering”-
Buddha
DEATH  “It is finished”-Jesus Christ
 Death is the cessation of physical life.
 Our experience of death is personal.

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