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According to Heidegger, human beings lose their Being at the time of death when totality is possible. Only a third man can grasp the totality of the I after the I’s death. I must die in order to acquire the totality. But in such a death, I lose all the possibilities. Therefore, I cannot reach the to...

According to Heidegger, human beings lose their Being at the time of death when totality is possible. Only a third man can grasp the totality of the I after the I’s death. I must die in order to acquire the totality. But in such a death, I lose all the possibilities. Therefore, I cannot reach the totality. Heidegger uses anticipation in order to solve this dilemma. For him, the anticipation of death is the possibility of impossibility for reaching the existential totality. Pannenberg tries to accept Heidegger’s existential anticipation by reinterpreting it in the social and historical horizon. In addition, Pannenberg tries to overcome Hegel’s self-recursive thinking by introducing both the notion of mere anticipation and the notion of contingence. But, in spite of his intent, their epistemological and ontological role in his eschatological anticipation is similar to the role of difference in Hegel’s dialectics. Therefore, his ‘Vorgriff’ seems to be ‘Vorbegriff.’

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