What Makes Me Separate From You?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.65828/agb32p11Keywords:
God, reincarnation, thrownness, Dasein, Being/being, nothingness, death, anxiety, ontology, temporality, Being-being, the atom, fundamental particles, String theory, M theory.Abstract
In this paper I have explored the question "What makes me separate from another person?" by considering it in three different ways: firstly in terms of religion and the supernatural; secondly through the discourse of Martin Heidegger and his notions of thrownness and Dasein; thirdly through the discourse of Particle Physics. Finally I considered what implications the conclusions that I reached from these explorations had for me personally and as a therapist.
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