Ethics and Finitude: Heideggerian Contributions to Moral Philosophy

Hatab, Lawrence J.; Circle, Heidegger

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“…This article does not separately argue in favor of these distinctions-that is the purpose of Heidegger's Daseinanalysis, given that it is basically successful and useful. If such a separate argument is required, then the reader may usefully engage with an exposition of Being and Time as provided by Dreyfus (1985Dreyfus ( , 2007, Hatab (2000), Polt (1999), Schu ¨rmann and Critchley ( 2008), or Agosta (2010Agosta ( , 2012. The present article is a Heideggerian account of empathy that uses the framework and mechanism of Heidegger's Daseinanalysis.…”

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A rumor of empathy: reconstructing Heidegger’s contribution to empathy and empathic clinical practice

Agosta

2013

Med Health Care and Philos

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Heidegger's 1927 call to provide "a special hermeneutic of empathy" is linked with his later commitment at the Zollikon Seminars to engage explicitly with issues in psychodynamic therapy with psychiatrists. The task of providing a special hermeneutic of empathy is one that Heidegger assigns in Being and Time, but on which he does not deliver. Inspired by the assignment, this article applies the distinctions of Heidegger's Daseinanalysis to human interrelations. This article generates a Heideggerian account of empathy as a multi-dimensional process that delimits and illuminates the field of possibilities of authentic human relationships. The multiple dimensions of empathy include affectedness (Befindlichkeit), understanding of possibility, interpretation, and speech, the latter including listening. The result is a reconstruction of a Heideggerian account of empathic human relations in the sense that it goes beyond what Heidegger explicitly says to what the Heideggerian method of inquiry can contribute to understanding and implementing the process of empathy. In particular, a two-by-two matrix is built and engaged in detail, cross referencing the four possibilities of authentic and inauthentic relationships with the individual and the other. A specifically Heideggerian analysis of the multi-dimensional process of empathy is the result. The clinical relevance of Heidegger's work is made explicit as empathy is positioned as the foundation of clinical practice as exemplified in psychodynamic psychotherapy.

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A rumor of empathy: reconstructing Heidegger’s contribution to empathy and empathic clinical practice

Agosta

2013

Med Health Care and Philos

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“…Jason Danely https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8027-9328 ENDNOTES 1 Costello (2009, 78) writes that phenomenologically, "In gratitude, one keeps something in mind because it has opened one onto a particular (and particularly relevant) stream of experiences, has provided an organizing route through the multiplicity that before had perhaps receded from view as undifferentiated." Costello also cites Lawrence Hatab (2000), who finds in Heidegger's phenomenology of thankfulness "a primal mood of grateful reception and openness to the world, to others, and to the fragile marvel of human possibilities" (2009, 79). 2 This sense of beginning is comparable to what Hannah Arendt calls "natality," a kind of birth into the world that Christina Schües (2002) argues also involves intention and initiative.…”

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In the shadows of gratitude: On mooded spaces of vulnerability and care

Danely

2023

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Gratitude is a ubiquitous phenomenon in everyday social interactions, yet it has received relatively little attention within anthropology. Past approaches to gratitude have focused on its practical expressions within exchange relationships. In contrast, this article considers the phenomenology of gratitude as a moral mood. Drawing on ethnographic episodes of gratitude between older care‐recipients and their unpaid family carers in Japan, I argue that gratitude generates an aesthetic atmosphere that attunes carer and cared‐for to each other. I explore this through the Japanese notion “kage,” or the “shadow,” an atmosphere of shared interdependence and vulnerability that is not reducible to darkness or light, pain, or comfort. In the context of informal care of older people, this ambiguity provides space for sharing complex relational experiences and easing the weight of emotional strain. This Japanese example provides a model of new ways to engage with gratitude ethnographically, particularly in situations involving close care.

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“…However, we saw that Margaret's love, vulnerability, and acceptance of others was too much for her. Hatab (2000) warns us "As radically finite, however, ethical discernment comes with something of a tremble " (p. 197). We cannot be on such shaky ground that we are unable to respond effectively and accurately to others.…”

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“…In effecting this response, the glance is indispensable; cutting across personal and social space, not to mention prejudice and dogmatism, the glance reaches out to the needful alterity of the Other (p. 91). Hatab (2000) suggests "So authentic individuation . .…”

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Presenting an existential foundation for community-based research using Richard Brautigan’s In Watermelon Sugar.

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Northup

2020

The Humanistic Psychologist

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We utilize the novella In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan as an expressive medium for understanding existential and community-based research. We analyze the story to reveal a phenomenological description of community as a lived experience and then demonstrate how the existentially shared experiences of finitude, alterity, and supplementarity can help inform the work community researchers do. We note the maintaining of community through the processes of mimesis, victimization, and scapegoating, and ask: How do we extricate ourselves from this cycle of violence? As community researchers, where can we ethically stand when intervening with and on behalf of others? In answer to these questions, we relate the moment of augenblick and the ethics of the Levinasian face-to-face encounter to a distinctly communal experience called communitas. Communitas is envisioned as a methodology supporting community based, participatory research and aligned with contemporary humanistic, feminist, critical, and intersectional theories.

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Ethics and Finitude: Heideggerian Contributions to Moral Philosophy

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A rumor of empathy: reconstructing Heidegger’s contribution to empathy and empathic clinical practice

A rumor of empathy: reconstructing Heidegger’s contribution to empathy and empathic clinical practice

In the shadows of gratitude: On mooded spaces of vulnerability and care

Presenting an existential foundation for community-based research using Richard Brautigan’s In Watermelon Sugar.

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