{"product_id":"is-there-a-measure-on-earth-foundations-for-a-nonmetaphysical-ethics-9780226509211","title":"Is There a Measure on Earth?: Foundations for a Nonmetaphysical Ethics","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe search for an ethics rooted in human experience is the crux of this deeply compassionate work  here translated from the 1983 German edition. Distinguished philosopher Werner Marx provides a close reading  critique  and Weiterdenken  or \"further thinking \" of Martin Heideggers later work on death  language  and poetry  which has often been dismissed as both obscure and obscurantist. In it Marx seeks  and perhaps finds  both a measure for distinguishing between good and evil and a motive for preferring the former.  The poet Hlderlin 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 lifeand leads to the measures of compassion  love  and recognition of ones 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45275091009589,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226509214","price":241.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226509211.jpg?v=1780500766","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/is-there-a-measure-on-earth-foundations-for-a-nonmetaphysical-ethics-9780226509211","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}