Martin Heideggers formal anzeigende Ethik. Eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Kritik an seinem ethischen Denken

Martin Heidegger’s philosophy has always been criticized for its lack of ethics or its decidedly unethical character. This criticism can be divided into two categories: one critique is aimed at the subjectivism of Heidegger’s philos­ophy and the other is a criticism of the displacement of ethics by ontology, claiming that the question of being excludes the questions of ethics. This criti­cism is particularly important because it is often directly linked to Heidegger’s commitment to National Socialism. In this paper, I will show how Heidegger could react to this twofold critique by referring to the method of formal indi­cation. The main argument is that the formality of Heidegger’s originary ethics is both its advantage and its distinguishing feature compared to modern ethics. This advantage of Heidegger’s originary ethics is that it makes possible an originally moral behaviour.