https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.487
The following paper presents a concept of death as “the ultimate situation” (Grenzsituation) developed by Karl Jaspers and its antecedent form in Kierkegaard’s writings. Beginning with Psychologie der Weltanchauungen, an early work of Jaspers, the brief discussion of main aspects of the concept in question shows death as essentially connected with structure of human being and its fundamental finitude. Jaspers follows Kierkegaard in his essential claims about existential function of death as “ultimate situation”. Becoming oneself is a main task of living individual as a “possible Existence” and is only achievable in proper assimilation of once own finitude, i. e. once own death. The main difference between both conceptions is the nature of faith which is involved in above call for “becoming subjective” in the face of once own death.
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