The experience of the ethical and its political consequences in later Heidegger and Derrida

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In my doctorate thesis, I have discussed the notion of the experience of the ethical and its political consequences. In this context, I have pointed to the central strategy of Kantian ethics that is called transcendental strategy. Transcendental strategy relies on a concept of causality, which unlike the causality that governs the laws of nature, arises from freedom in its cosmological meaning. I have discussed Heideggerian challenge to this concept of causality from an ontological point of view that gives rise to totalitarian political consequences. In relation to Heideggerian challenge, I have argued that Derrida̕s critique of Heidegger gives rise to democratic political consequences that reconcile the origin of ethics with fiction through utilization of the transcendence of transcendentality. Thereby, I have argued that experience of the ethical for Derrida induces to similar political consequences with holistic pragmatism

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Individual Ethics., Character., Virtue.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/14348

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C. Camcı, “The experience of the ethical and its political consequences in later Heidegger and Derrida,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2004.