id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3001 Ecstasy (philosophy) - Wikipedia .html text/html 1477 195 59 Ecstasy (from the Ancient Greek ἔκστασις ekstasis, "to be or stand outside oneself, a removal to elsewhere" from ek"out," and stasis "a stand, or a standoff of forces") is a term used in ancient Greek, Christian and existential philosophy. The term ecstasy (German: Ekstase) has been used in this sense by Martin Heidegger who, in his Being and Time of 1927, argued that our being-in-the-world is usually focused toward some person, task, or the past (see also existence and Dasein). ^ As existentialist scholar Alphonso Lingis writes: "Existential philosophy defined the new concepts of ecstasy or of transcendence to fix a distinct kind of being that is by casting itself out of its own given place and time, without dissipating, because at each moment it projects itself — or, more exactly, a variant of itself — into another place and time. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3001.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3001.txt