Heidegger and Ethics remains a controversial topic among Heidegger scholars. What appears particularly troublesome is the conjunction itself, [which hints on a link between] Heidegger and ethics. Heidegger proposes to consider ethics in its original source, distinguishing it from morality and from ethics as a philosophical discipline, which often concerns with social or political issues. Heidegger distinguishes ?u6 from ??u6, preferring to discuss ethos instead of ethics. Heidegger's main hero here is Aristotle. When referring to Aristotelian texts, Heidegger attempts nothing less but to rethink the first part of first philosophy. The leading question in interpretation of Aristotle is the question of the objectness of Being, in which both Being of human and Being of life are interpreted. Heidegger asks himself what the phenomenological foundation for explicating the [meaning] of man is, and what categories evolve from this foundation. This article focuses on the same question. It begins with the discussion of hermeneutic phenomenology and concludes with the analysis of thinking rooted in historical Being - the two projects that signify important milestones in Heidegger's development.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)62-75
Number of pages14
JournalRussian Studies in Philosophy
Volume54
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016

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