La noción heideggeriana de facticidad. La religión de la vida y la vida del religioso

This article studies the notion of facticity within a concrete period of the works of Martin Heidegger, with a particular reference to The Phenomenology of Religious Life, and Ontology – The Hermeneutics of Facticity upon his reading of the Old and New Testament, St. Augustine’s Confessions (Book X), and the texts of other authors and mystics such as Thomas à Kempis. The working hypothesis put forward in this article states that the early works of Heidegger show that the notion of facticity has more negative (pessimistic) contours than positive (optimistic) ones, and that its most comprehensive features are everydayness, temporality and seclusion. The method of research entailed a dialectic and exegetic approach to the primary source. A conclusion is drawn in the sense that the notion of seclusion comprised in that of facticity entails assuming life in the context of time but above it.