I am not conceding that the Nothing does not exist; I only say that when one has values, prays, or listens to the word of God, there is no Nothing - neither around, nor below, nor above, nor ahead, nor behind.
One can fall into despair for an indefinite time without crumbling into the Nothing. In the human condition, which is something more than existing like an animal, there is no Nothing; there is despair, the despair of living without values, without future, without… something.
That much is true, but there is no Nothing.
The man of Heidegger (Dasein) is a dehumanized man, without hope, reduced to the structure of an existence without humanity (in my opinion, the man of Heidegger represents the triumph of nihilism: a man without interiority, without soul, without spirit, who simply exists, structurally).
What is the spirit?
The spirit of man is something composed. It is formed by our pre-occupation with things and with human beings.
We relate to things through our spirit, which is already a composed spirit, not only from our relationship with things, but also from our relationship with the people we have encountered previously.
We are a living spirit composed of the living spirits with whom we have exchanged and related before, and according to the echo of those prior bonds, we approach things.
In this way, what is most private becomes public, directs itself toward (faces) the things that are around man.
The spirit holds within itself the capacity to listen to the word of God, but this capacity belongs above all to the inner man. And many men deny this capacity because they do not possess it: they lack any form of prevenient grace and are not even interested in seeking it: εἰς ὃ ἐφθάσαμεν, τῷ αὐτῷ στοιχεῖν ("according to what we have attained, let us walk by the same rule," Phil 3:15-16).
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