ABSTRACT
Shows how Heidegger’s “original ethics” establishes the ethos (or proprietorship) of dwelling as a new baseline to incorporate a “trans-human” perspective in the discussion of traditional ethical concerns. Section I shows that Heidegger held back a formal ethical inquiry, in the wake of a transformation of ethics that could meet a new crisis and extend moral concerns beyond an “anthropocentric” focus. The second section shows how Heidegger’s questioning of ethics brings stewardship to the forefront a new direction of human action (in lieu of metaphysically based moral principles). Section III establishes how this paradigm shift in ethics provides a new entry point into the political (or reopening the question thereof), even though Heidegger himself never made this systemic link. Section IV outlines the historical horizon that Heidegger develops to mark the coordinates by which the task of dwelling can emerge as a global challenge today, that is, in the temporal-space opened up through the tension between world and earth.
