The ontological impossibility of a flourishing self in the absence of the other

• Authors: Mahoney Michelle
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper follows Iris Murdoch in an ongoing critique of existentialism that saw the beginnings of her philosophical work with Sartre and its conclusion with her manuscript on Heidegger. The continuity of her critique focuses upon her concern with the magnetism of the ego over and against attention toward the other. Heidegger, as a metaphysician working to close the post-Enlightenment subject/object separation, engages her thought regarding new possibilities for a future metaphysics. For Murdoch, seeking an ontology that rejects a transcendent God requires a notion of goodness that provokes a point of contention with Heidegger’s ontology of Being, where a new dualism of authenticity and inauthenticity toward Being undermines any ethos of the other.

Keywords

EN

Aletheia; art; authencity; Dasein; Eros; Ego; good; Other; Sorge; self; death

PL

aletheia; sztuka; autentyczność; Dasein; Eros; ego; dobro; Inny; Sorge; ja; śmierć

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Studia Philosophiae Christianae
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 233-248

Contributors

author

Mahoney Michelle

• Memorial University of Newfoundland, Department of Philosophy, P.O. Box 4200, NL A1C 5S7 , Canada