Heidegger and the Questionabilityof the Ethical
Heidegger and the Questionabilityof the Ethical

Summary/Abstract: Despite Heidegger’s critique of ethics, his use of ethically-inflectedlanguage intimates an interpretive ethics of encounter involving self-interpreting agents in their hermeneutical context and the formal indication of facticallife as a situated dwelling open to possibilities enacted through practices of care, interpretation, and individuation. Existence is constituted practically inDasein’s addressing, encountering, and responding to itself, others, and its world. Unlike rule-based or virtue ethics, this ethos of responsive encounterand individuating confrontation challenges any grounding in a determinate or exemplary model of reason, human nature, the virtues, or tradition.

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