“Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonder, sorrow, and deference in the face of something greater and more powerful... Only such a being-unto-death can guarantee the precondition that the Da-sein be able to free itself from its absorption in, its submission and surrender of itself to the things and relationships of everyday living and to return to itself.” HumansFeelingsAbleFacesPowerfulExistenceWonderGreaterReturnSorrowLimitsBasesEverydaySurrenderGuaranteesAweReverenceSubmissionHuman ExistenceAbsorptionDeferenceEveryday Living Author:Medard Boss
“We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal, insubstantial, or illusory because they do not so exist. We merely state that the reality of these nonhuman realms differs from that of human existence, whose primary characteristic is Da-sein (literally being-the-there)... Man as man is present... in a manner wholly different from... inanimate things.” MenHumansDifferentStatesRealityAnimalExistenceMaterialsPlantPrimariesRealmsCharacteristicsUnrealHuman ExistenceIllusory Author:Medard Boss
“If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at all could exist. 'Being,' in its traditional usage, means 'presence' and 'persistence.' To achieve presence, and thereby being, an entity requires some sort of open realm in which presence and persistence can take place. Thus an open realm of perception like that of human existence is the one being that makes being possible.” IfsMenWorldHumansMeanExistenceAchievePerceptionCapacityTraditionalPersistenceRealmsEngagedEntityHuman ExistenceReceptiveUsage Author:Medard Boss
