Are We Destitute?

Pain, Death, and Love in Heidegger

Heidegger writes:

“The time is destitute because it lacks the unconcealedness of the nature of pain, death, and love.”

One could reject Heidegger’s premise that our time is destitute. But one way that Heidegger might counter is that he’s simply defining destitution operationally as living in an age in which one doesn’t appreciate the nature of pain, death…