Ethics and Finitude
Heideggerian Contributions to Moral Philosophy| By: | Lawrence J. Hatab |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury USA |
| Print ISBN: | 9780847696826 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780742578791 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2000 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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This book explores what anyone interested in ethics can draw from Heidegger's thinking. Heidegger argues for the radical finitude of being. But finitude is not only an ontological matter; it is also located in ethical life. Moral matters are responses to finite limit-conditions, and ethics itself is finite in its modes of disclosure, appropriation, and performance. With Heidegger's help, Lawrence Hatab argues that ethics should be understood as the contingent engagement of basic practical questions, such as how should human beings live?