The limits of transcendence

Richard S Matthews

doi:10.22329/p.v2i1.67

The limits of transcendence

Richard S Matthews

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A central ethical and political worry in Heidegger and Nietzsche is the philosophical irrelevance of everyday moral, epistemological and political norms, as well as of individual suffering and evil. In consequence they offer little to help us think about ethical experience. I argue that Albert Camus' analysis of moral and epistemic limits offers a more fruitful alternative. But this requires us to take ordinary experience as central to philosophical analysis, rather than simply viewing it as a clue to the real philosophical issues.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	67-86
Number of pages	20
Journal	PhaenEx: journal of existential and phenomenological theory and culture
Volume	2
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.22329/p.v2i1.67
Publication status	Published - 2007
Externally published	Yes

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