IS THERE A MEASURE ON EARTH? Foundations for a Nonmetaphysical Ethics
Language: English
Published by University of Chicago Press, 1987
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- Title
- IS THERE A MEASURE ON EARTH? Foundations for a Nonmetaphysical Ethics
- Author
- Marx, Werner and Reginald Lilly and Thomas J. Nenon
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication year
- 1987
- Condition
- NF
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0226509214
- ISBN 13
- 9780226509211
The poet Hölderlin posed the question, "Is there a measure on earth?" His own answer was emphatic, "There is none," for he was convinced that the measure for man was to be found only in the domain of the heavenly beings. Such metaphysical assumptions, as well as the attempt to found ethical conduct in the nature of man as a rational being, have been rejected by many contemporary thinkers, particularly Heidegger. Yet these thinkers have not been able to provide a satisfactory alternative to metaphysical foundations of the standards for responsible human conduct.
Marx, therefore, goes beyond Heidegger in demonstrating how several of his most basic notions could be relevant to a secular morality in our age. It is death, Marx claims, that unsettles man and transforms his conduct toward his fellow man. the common experience of mortality nourishes ethical life—and leads to the measures of compassion, love, and recognition of one's fellow human beings.
"It is only on the basis of these 'traditional virtues,'" Marx writes, "that we can find a motive for averting the impending dangers which have often enough been described so vividly and convincingly."
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