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    Heidegger and environmental ethics

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    This thesis presents an environmental ethic based on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Chapter One uses Heidegger's conception of 'dwelling' as the basis for a satisfying account of the 'otherness' or alterity of nature. Chapter Two draws upon Heidegger's writings on 'the dif-ference', Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophy and the metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead to develop a 'dialectical' conception of holism which can accommodate both the account of alterity presented in Chapter One and an account of the intrinsic value of individual beings. Chapter Three frames this conception of environmental holism in terms of ethics. It is argued that Heidegger's ideal of 'releasement' can be thought of as an essential 'function' of humans, the exercise of which promotes human flourishing. Extending this Aristotelian line of reasoning, it is shown how one can draw upon Heidegger's philosophy to articulate a form of environmental virtue ethic. Chapter Four investigates the charge that Heidegger's later thought is quietistic, a general allegation which is analysed into four interrelated specific charges: 1) the accusation that Heidegger is advocating a passive withdrawal from the world; 2) Adorno's charge in Negative Dialectics that Heidegger's philosophy is inimical to critical thought; 3) the objection that Heidegger is unable to deal adequately with either interhuman relations or the relations between humans and nonhuman animals; and 4) the charge that Heidegger's later writings cannot be brought to bear upon practical environmental issues. In answer to this last objection, case studies are presented of two environmental issues: 1) the environmental impact of tourism; and 2) the practice of environmental restoration

    Earthsongs: ecopoetics, Heidegger and dwelling

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    This paper discusses the notion of ecopoetics in relation to the work of Martin Heidegger and his concept of dwelling. Our aim, broadly stated, is to respond to the question: "What frame of mind could bring about sustainability - and how might we develop it?" In the first part of the paper, we comment on Jonathan Bate's notion of ecopoetics and his discussion of Heidegger. Crucial here is the question of whether we can ever approach Nature in an non-ideological way or are all attempts to capture Nature, theoretically or poetically or narratively, nothing more than our own peculiar appropriation of it? Ecopoetics might be conceived as a response to this question, although we dispute Bate's view. In the second part of the paper, following Micheal Haar's perceptive reading, we elaborate the four senses that Heidegger gives to Nature, and in the third section, we make some concluding comments about the notion of sustainability that might be explicated in relation to Heidegger's four senses of Nature

    The ethics of thinking in Heidegger, Bruno & Spinoza

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    The aim of the present work is to face Heidegger’s claim that philosophy has ended. Facing this claim for us has not taken the form of creating a new method or positing a new question but that of a search for anomalies in what Heidegger decrees as finished, which is philosophy as metaphysics. In his historical confrontation with the history of thought Heidegger seems to have left out, dismissed or forgotten those authors who do not fit into his definition of metaphysics. We have chosen Giordano Bruno and Baruch Spinoza, metaphysical thinkers who have undertaken a philosophical practice that does not intend to demolish subjectivity but actually begins without any need for it. The birth of the subject as grounding reality finds its affirmation with Descartes and inaugurates modernity that, according to Heidegger, exhausts philosophy and leads it into the arms of modern science and technology. Bruno and Spinoza respectively precede and follow the birth of modernity and of modern science, which they look at with an eye that is not that of the modern subject. Following their different approaches to philosophy, we shall also explore their relation to Renaissance Humanism, dismissed by Heidegger as a historical reiteration of the Roman world, perceived as a perversion of the Greek origin of thought. We shall show how hasty such a dismissal is. Our goal is to show not merely that Heidegger is wrong but that if Western thinking contains the seeds of its own end, it also contains the ones of a different understanding of the Western world and its achievements. The three authors will engage on the grounds of ontology, gnosiology and ethics and yet we have defined the whole enterprise of this work as an ethics overall. An ethics of thinking is a practice of thought that wishes to envisage the possibility for Western man of inhabiting his own world by understanding himself not as an isolated subject and master of nature but as the place where the unity and multiplicity of nature come to be thought at the same time

    M. Heidegger, what is philosophy?

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    In the first lecture he gave in France in 1955 Heidegger discusses the question “what is philosophy?” Discussing Greek and modern answers from Heraclitus to Nietzsche to that question Heidegger also develops his own philosophy in this relatively short text. Of the highest importance are the relations between being and language and being and Dasein. Philosophy is only possible if it answers the call of being. The lecture offers a beautiful introduction into Heidegger’s later philosophy.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tec

    O Ser da técnica conforme Martin Heidegger e Jacques Ellul

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    Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em FilosofiaMartin Heidegger e Jacques Ellul sao geralmente considerados como pensadores que entenderam a tecnica moderna como uma entidade autonoma com relacao a vida humana, por mais que o homem seja o criador das tecnicas e artefatos. Heidegger parece ver na tecnica moderna uma sorte de destino a que o homem nao pode escapar. Ellul denuncia o #\fenomeno tecnico. como uma realidade que, uma vez instalada, escapa ao controle humano. Este trabalho analisa as ideias de ambos os pensadores e mostra que, no entanto, nao e facil atribuir a nenhum deles a crenca num determinismo tecnologico. Esperamos assim contribuir, nao apenas para a melhor compreensao desses autores, como tambem para saber ate que ponto somos donos da nossa vida ao vivermos num mundo quase totalmente tecnologico

    Martin Heidegger, L'Europe et la philosophie allemande

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    info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedTraduction de M. Heidegger, "Europa und die deutsche Philosophie" (Europa und die Philosophie, Martin-Heidegger-Gesellschaft, Schriftenreihe, Band 2, hrsg. v. H.-H. Gander, V. Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 1993, p. 31-41). Précédé d'une présentation :"En deçà et au-delà de l'Europe", p. 3-12

    Martin Heidegger, Le concept de temps dans la science historique

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    Traduction de M. Heidegger :"Der Zeitbegriff in der Geschichtswissenschaft" (Frühe Schriften, Gesamtausgabe Band 1, hrsg. v. F.-W. v. Herrmann, V. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main, 1978, p. 413-433). Précédé d'une présentation :"Martin Heidegger et la logique de l'histoire", p. 3-11.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

    Adorno e Heidegger tra dialettica e fenomeologia.

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    È impresa non priva di difficoltà far convivere nello stesso spazio cartaceo autori come Th. W. Adorno e M. Heidegger, che si muovono all’interno di orizzonti di riflessione filosofica così distanti e rispetto ai quali può sembrare scientificamente pretenzioso ogni tentativo di accostamento, fosse anche questo interamente in direzione di una forte e netta differenziazione. Il presente saggio, riconoscendo la difficoltà di una lettura del rapporto Adorno-Heidegger che pretenda di far dialogare i due autori secondo i termini di un confronto immanente, si propone, tuttavia, di far risaltare i tratti comuni che attestano la loro cittadinanza nell’ambito della proposta di indagine filosofica propria del pensiero contemporaneo
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