Sublime

for Heidegger, is the central challenge of human existence: since finitude defines our lives, he argues that living a truly authentic life – becoming fully human – means facing up to that fact. We must live out our lives, to whatever extent we can, in clear-eyed acknowledgement of our limitations, in the undeluded mode of existence that Heidegger c

for Hegel, truth became more evident over time, as history was the medium through which a truth that was at first only latent later became manifest.

They acknowledge that the meaning of what they do in their lives rests on the implicit assumption that the world is relatively more lasting than they are—those parts of it, at least, to which they give their time, energy, and love.