This is a sentence said by the German philosopher Heidegger, translated into Chinese: live toward death.

To fully understand "being toward death", we first start with Heidegger's inquiry into ontology (befregan). Since ancient Greece, metaphysics has been asking: What is the "existence" of beings? Why do all things (beings) exist rather than not? The surprised philosophers each gave their own answers, but these answers all implied these premises:

①The existence of all things is self-evident, and the state of "nothing" in which all things do not exist, "nothing" No need to question.

②We don’t need to ask how everything exists or how physics emerges.

③The answer to the question is hidden in those concrete entities that are always "what", rather than existence or emergence itself.

The essence of human beings as "being" lies in Existenz and the many possibilities of existence.

To give an inappropriate example, a person can be a lawyer, but at the same time he also has the possibility of engaging in other professions without being defined by a certain profession.

Secondly, Dasein must be in the world (In-der-Welt-Sein), be integrated with the world, deal with all kinds of beings and others, and exist with others (Mitsein). Being-in-the-world and being-in-the-world here are clearly opposed to the subject philosophy of traditional epistemology, which separates the subject and the world - as if people do not live in this world but stare at it alone, so the concept of "how the subject knows the object" emerged. How to conform to the object" and a series of unfounded questions.