ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the frontiers of the philosophy of finite existence. The philosophy of existence starts with the knowledge of the progressive impoverishment of meaning, the narrow inferiority, indifference, triviality, and even wickedness of a large portion of mankind. Existential philosophy, especially that of Martin Heidegger, has been discussed in its fundamental positions as well as in its concentration on the subject or human existence. Existential philosophy makes death its central experience. The threat of death concerns all of us, and Heidegger’s presentation of it somehow attracts us. In the philosophy of existence, the self is experienced as the ultimate validity all the more since, as has been seen, it feels the utter doubtfulness of all finite data and is not prepared to offer determining norms. The chapter describes the atmosphere of the philosophy of existence as representative of contemporary feeling.
