真实人生

According to Martin Heidegger, inauthenticity is a central part of our life but authenticity is something that we should try to achieve.

An authentic life has three central structures:
1. Consciousness--being conscious in us a constant reminder that we're not what we always want to be. We are not authentic. We're just going with the crowd. There is a quiet voice within us saying that we could be something else. Conscience gives us a feeling of guilt and urges us to think things that we can change.
2. Being onto death--it is not a celebration of death but recognition of death. A sense of living with death in our minds. The truth is that people don't face death seriously, no reflection but in an abstract way. Facing death is very different, the kind has reflection built into it. The entire life passes before one's eye in the moment of death. When you face death, you ask very basic questions of yourself--the nature of your life. You see your life as a whole, something concrete. Death shakes us out of specific problems. Death makes us into a true individual, just as yourself, not in term of your social role. You perceive the true nothingness. Your Dasein cease to be; the world for you is ceased to be. There is no world anymore. Death shakes your life unlike anything can do for you, forcing you to see yourself as a unity and be resolute to what you should do, not alienated as a self, but eventually emerge yourself in your time.
3. The feelings of alienation and loneliness as a consequence of being unique in a world of indifferent others, in Kierkegaard's phrase "the crowd" or in Nietzsche's, "the herd."

For Nietzsche, human existence is the "will to power, " a desire to create and destroy as we please, in an artistic sense. Great individual invent their own values and create the very terms under which they excel. Kierkegaard's "knight of faith" and Nietzsche's "ubermensch" are examples of those who define the nature of their own existence.