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A Posse ad Esse

       " I f we trust the famous words of Pericles in the Funeral Oration that gives a guaranty that those w h o forced every sea and lan d to become the scene of their daring will not remain without wit ne ss and will need neither Homer nor anyone else who knows how to turn words to prai s e them; without existence from others, those who acted will be able to establish together the everlasting remembrance of their good and bad d e eds, to inspire admiration in the present and in future age s ."         O n the idea of life struggles lead us to th i nk particularly with our current condition that life really is not most satisfying, it urges us individually to look for m or e what we c ould consider as worth living. Oth e rs may re m ain idle o r far more worst stagnant in their own la k e, afraid to break free from the shackles that they are conditioned to exist. Although there are attempts to walk across, the path we perceive would change o...

Anxiety-in-Time

                                             Time is not a thing, this nothing which is, and yet it remains constant is in its passing away without something temporal like the beings in time. — Martin Heidegger          The notion of human being throughout the history has come under iterations kind of thinking as definition formulated tends to resemble things, placing repugnant understanding to asunder its very essence of what it is like to be and its why of being human. Martin Heidegger (Sept. 26, 1889-1976) widely acknowledge to be one of the most original and important philosopher of 20 th century while remaining controversial. His thinking has contributed to such diverse field as Phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty), Existentialism (Ortega y Gasset, Sartre), Hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur), Political theory ...