Will, Death, Extension

Heidegger's 'Being-towards-Death' serves the same individuating function as Doubt does for Descartes, but without disembodying the Individual. However, he accomplishes the preserving of Corporeality by interpreting Extension teleologically, thereby ensnaring him in a notion of Death which, as has been previously argued, is convoluted and ultimately specious. What he misses is the process of Extending that he, as much as Descartes, hypostasizes as Extension. In contrast, here, Will is the process of Extending in personal Experience, and its Material Principle, thereby suggesting that the Formal Cause-Material Cause pair affords a more effective characterization of Individuation than does Teleological Causality.