Will, Death, Certainty

Just as Descartes finds Certainty in Doubt, Heidegger discovers one's ownmost possibility of being-in-the-world in the thought of one's own Death. The parallel exposes Heidegger as located where he presumes he is not--within the Cartesian tradition that can be characterized as the 'History of Self-Certitude'. Now, as has been previously discussed, Heidegger never succeeds in presenting the thought of one's own Death as anything other than anonymous and empty. Consequently, the entire concatenation of involvements constituting being-in-the-world, for which that thought serves as the telos, similarly dissolves. What remains is Will, i. e. the principle of indefinite Motility in Experience, which Heidegger either neglects or suppresses en route to his securing an Understanding of Being.