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What We Owe the Dead: Of Mortality, Measure, and Morality

What We Owe the Dead: Of Mortality, Measure, and Morality 190 What We Owe the Dead: Of Mortality, Measure, and Morality DENNIS J. SCHMIDT Villanova University The brief remarks that follow are designated as a small act of homage to Werner Marx, a token to acknowledge something of what I learned from him over the years. And I know of no better way of doing that than by speaking about a set of concerns that seem very much at the heart of his own work. In its most general form, the problematic that I want to address concerns the possibility of a kinship between morality and mortality, between solidarity and solitude, death and the possibility of commu- nity. It is an ancient topic, one that is already taken up by Sophocles and Plato, but it is a topic that is given a uniquely contemporary treat- ment by Marx thanks to the inspiration that he draws from Heidegger. These themes, and the sensitivity to their contemporary contours, is most clearly evident in Professor Marx's 1983 text with the question- ing title drawn from Holderlin, Gibt es auf Erden ein Mafi? Haunted by Holderlin's own answer to that question of the gift of measure-namely that there is none-Marx's text asks http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Research in Phenomenology Brill

What We Owe the Dead: Of Mortality, Measure, and Morality

Schmidt, Dennis J.
Research in Phenomenology , Volume 27 (1): 190 – Jan 1, 1997
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190 What We Owe the Dead: Of Mortality, Measure, and Morality DENNIS J. SCHMIDT Villanova University The brief remarks that follow are designated as a small act of homage to Werner Marx, a token to acknowledge something of what I learned from him over the years. And I know of no better way of doing that than by speaking about a set of concerns that seem very much at the heart of his own work. In its most general form, the problematic that I want to address concerns the possibility of a kinship between morality and mortality, between solidarity and solitude, death and the possibility of commu- nity. It is an ancient topic, one that is already taken up by Sophocles and Plato, but it is a topic that is given a uniquely contemporary treat- ment by Marx thanks to the inspiration that he draws from Heidegger. These themes, and the sensitivity to their contemporary contours, is most clearly evident in Professor Marx's 1983 text with the question- ing title drawn from Holderlin, Gibt es auf Erden ein Mafi? Haunted by Holderlin's own answer to that question of the gift of measure-namely that there is none-Marx's text asks

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