Editora da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás
Abstract
This paper investigates some essential steps in Eugen Fink’s conception of life, in order to show its phenomenological roots. First of all, it is explained how the conception of individual life interpreted as self-understanding builds the foundations of the ontological project movement, which consists precisely in the vitality - i.e. the problematization towards cosmological difference - of those thoughts of Being that constitute our pre-comprehension. Secondly, the structure of the movement of the world is described in its main characteristics; moreover, the relationship between the life of the individual as ontological understanding and the life of the world as a continuous process of appearing is deepened. Finally, an attempt is made to find the mediation between the two instances, individual and cosmic, through the reference to the experience of the phenomenon of death as an index of the totality of Nothingness
