Revising Resoluteness
Confronting the Moral Problem of Others in Being and Time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8409783 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Min Seol (0000-0001-7322-8434, Pusan National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 298-314 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1773 • E-ISSN: 2332-0486 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00071773.2021.1977090 |
| OpenAlex | W3200995526 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Heidegger’s Being and Time has been criticized for its lack of moral concern toward others. I address this problem by reviewing and developing several revisionist interpretations. I call these the historicist, sympathy-oriented, and ontological approaches to the moral problem of others. First, I develop the ontological approach and propose to reinterpret being authentic as proper to our essence. Second, I use Heidegger’s idea in Being and Time that our essence lies in disclosure to suggest that we comprehend resoluteness as being proper to both world- and self-disclosure. Then I revise Heidegger’s definition of resoluteness to argue that our world-disclosure requires us to help others recover their authentic selves, and that this is what Heidegger is gesturing toward when he writes about “leaping ahead”. Third, I briefly assess the ethical implications of “leaping ahead” and conclude that it does not allow us to treat others as mere objects
Epistemology · Historicism · Sociology · Sympathy · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |