Facticity (French: facticité, German: faktizität) is the contingent conditions of an individual human life. It is a term used in 20th centurycontinental philosophy, especially in the works of Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre and the existentialists. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Continental philosophy is a general term for several related philosophical traditions that (notionally) originated in continental Europe from the nineteenth century onward, in contrast with Anglo-American analytic philosophy. ... Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976) was a German philosopher, considered by some to be one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. ... Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (IPA: or or ) (June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist and critic. ... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ...
Heidegger and Sartre
In the works of Heidegger and Sartre, facticity is all of the concrete details against the background of which human freedom exists. For example, these may include the particular time and place of birth of an individual, as well as the prospect of their death.
Further reading
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Essays in Existentialism.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Existentialism Is A Humanism.
Van Buren, John. Martin Heidegger, Ontology: The Hermeneutics of Facticity.
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