Abstract

According to Eugen Fink, a German phenomenologist and student of Martin Heidegger, „metaphysics of death“ is one of the most important tasks of philosophy. However, metaphysics, as the queen of philosophical disciplines, finds itself in the sharpest marginal situation because its concepts of illuminating and determining being seem to be fragmented. The relationship between metaphysics and death should be perceived as such that death is not the subject of metaphysical thought, but rather its existential motive. Fink looks at the phenomenon of death from a different perspective than his mentor Martin Heidegger. Like other of his existentials, by which the human existence is defined, he complements it by an aspect of intersubjectivity, which fundamentally revises the strongly individualistic concept.