Original scientific paper
BETWEEN THE ONTOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL DANGER: MARTIN HEIDEGGER AND THE “FATE OF BEING”
Andrej Kirn
; Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana
Abstract
In this article four issues are discussed: Heidegger's maxime “to let being beings”, the dilemmas of egalitarian and non–egalitarian biocentrism, activism and voluntarism vs. passivism and the question whether the ecological ethcs can be viewed as a paradigmatic turn in the tradition of ethics.
Heidegger's philosophy rejects basically the ecologicaly ethics, because his promotion of something to a value, even to a positive one, would mean for him only spread of a being's subjectivism. It means that the being is allowed only to be an object of men's celebration. A complete ethical eqivalence of living would lead into an anti–humanism. A moderate, soft value biocentrism demands from men only to take into consideration the well–being of other being, not only of themselves. If the ecological ethical conscince should become prevailing, it will cause and pressure actual social changes. The ecological ethics represents a paradigmatic turn in traditional ethics and is not only the spreading of ethical principles into a new area.
Keywords
the Being; Genetic Technology; Ecological Ethics; Egalitarian and non–egalitarian Biocentrism; Voluntarism
Hrčak ID:
141657
URI
Publication date:
15.9.1998.
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