From Cambridge University Press in the Series: Elements in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Free online till 8th April 2025.
Mahon O’Brien – Heidegger on Ethics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2025
Series: Elements in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger
Heidegger is often understood to have forsaken the very possibility of ethics – we find numerous variations of this view in the secondary literature. And yet, in Letter on Humanism, Heidegger stresses the importance of ethics (thought anew as originary ethics) in the context of the dangers posed by the technological age. In this Element, the author will try to unpack what Heidegger might have meant by this. Ultimately, his account of the essence of the human being will prove to be the key to understanding what he describes as ‘originary ethics’.