The question of the possibility of forming an authentic society based on Heidegger's phenomenological reading of Nicomachean Ethics

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

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1 PHD candidate for philosophy, isfahan university

2 professor of philosophy in isfahan university

Abstract

This article explains the possibility of forming an authentic society based on "Being and Time." It also shows that Heidegger's understanding of such a society is based on his phenomenological reading of some Aristotelian moral concepts – concepts such as friendship and courage- in Nicomachean Ethics Book. Human beings, both in Aristotle's thinking and in Heidegger's thinking, have beforehand – that is, before any thought, decision, or action- has an existential relation with its peripheral world. Here the meaning of the possibility of forming a community is, in fact, the possibility of transcending "self" and of having the "existential" relation with "other". To explain this point, we attempt adequately to express Heidegger's phenomenological reading of Nicomachean Ethics and the effect that this reading has on the formation of "Being and Time."

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Shinakht (A Persian Word Means Knowledge)
Volume 12, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
December 2019
Pages 213-233

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  • Receive Date: 01 November 2017
  • Revise Date: 03 January 2022
  • Accept Date: 31 December 2020

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