Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-1995

Comments

This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in International Journal of Philosophical Stuides 3.1 (1995): 55-72.

©1995 Routledge, Taylor & Francis

DOI: 10.1080/09672559508570803

Available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09672559508570803

Abstract

I show how Hans Jonas, one of Heidegger's most distinguished Jewish students, traces his mentor's susceptibility to Nazism to a moral nihilism at the heart of Heidegger's teaching in "Being and Time". I then demonstrate how Jonas's own "existential interpretation of the biological facts" and metaphysical grounding of "an imperative of responsibility" provide one of the most systematic and challenging rejoinders to the moral failings of Heidegger's thought.

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The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.