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On the Way to an Ontological Ethics: Ethical Suggestions in Reading Heidegger SILVIA BENSO Siena College 1. Heidegger Against Ethics ? . To search for ethical suggestions in Heidegger's writings may appear to be a paradox or a radical misunderstanding.' It is well known that Heidegger condemns any kind of ethics, from Kant's formalistic ethics, to Scheler's ethics of values, to Nietzsche's transvaluation of all values, which turns into a creation of new values. And, as is also well known, Heidegger holds that his thought, insofar as it is thinking of Being and not of beings, has to be free of any practical concern. In the Letter on Humanism, he peremptorily asserts that the thinking of Being is "neither theoretical nor practical. It comes to pass before this distinction. Such thinking is, insofar as it is, recollection of Being and nothing else.... It thinks Being. Such thinking has no result. It has no effect. It satisfies its essence in that it is."2 Any ethical question seems out of place not only in Heidegger's thought but also in his vocabulary, since he very seldom uses the word "ethics," and when he does, it is in order to show its
Research in Phenomenology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1994
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