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Conscience, its history and 'Being and Time': on selfhood, autonomy and an experiment with norms

Conscience, its history and 'Being and Time': on selfhood, autonomy and an experiment with norms
Conscience, its history and 'Being and Time': on selfhood, autonomy and an experiment with norms
One of the most puzzling elements in Being and Time’s notoriously difficult exploration of authenticity is its discussion of conscience. I will present here a reading of that discussion informed by two hypotheses. The first is that we can learn something about Heidegger’s discussion of conscience by considering the history of that notion. The second hypothesis is that Heideggerian authenticity requires what one might call ‘the owning of norms’. Steven Galt Crowell and Rebecca Kukla have argued in their different ways in favour of this second hypothesis and I will explore here two interpretations of it of my own.
0923-9545
181-208
Springer Cham
Mcmanus, Denis
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Rogove, John
D'Oriano, Pietro
Mcmanus, Denis
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Rogove, John
D'Oriano, Pietro

Mcmanus, Denis (2022) Conscience, its history and 'Being and Time': on selfhood, autonomy and an experiment with norms. In, Rogove, John and D'Oriano, Pietro (eds.) Heidegger and his Anglo-American Reception: A Comprehensive Approach. (Contributions to Phenomenology, 119) 1st ed. Springer Cham, pp. 181-208. (doi:10.1007/978-3-031-05817-2_11).

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One of the most puzzling elements in Being and Time’s notoriously difficult exploration of authenticity is its discussion of conscience. I will present here a reading of that discussion informed by two hypotheses. The first is that we can learn something about Heidegger’s discussion of conscience by considering the history of that notion. The second hypothesis is that Heideggerian authenticity requires what one might call ‘the owning of norms’. Steven Galt Crowell and Rebecca Kukla have argued in their different ways in favour of this second hypothesis and I will explore here two interpretations of it of my own.

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Published date: 9 September 2022

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Local EPrints ID: 476450
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/476450
ISSN: 0923-9545
PURE UUID: dd963b26-049c-4912-a3ec-3c6e27ecd888

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Date deposited: 02 May 2023 15:11
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 01:36

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Author: Denis Mcmanus
Editor: John Rogove
Editor: Pietro D'Oriano

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