gary e. davis
re: Heidegger, 1923, Unpublished Seminars on Aristotle, the Nichomachean Ethics
from Human Life in Motion, Indiana UPress, 2024 (Open Access book)
A typical reader of Heidegger might believe that his focus on care begins with Being and Time;
and that Heidegger lacked an ethics (Emmanuel Levinas). But Heidegger's devoted orientation
to teaching excellence expresses an ethics of care all along—a care which originates, perhaps,
from his Catholic youth, when Pope Leo XIII was creating and instituting Catholic Social Teaching (overtly seeking to bypass Marxist stirrings in the late 19th century).
In any case, a guiding ethics of care was integral to Heidegger's development. The primoriality
of caring motivates his desire to promote authentic bases for community through educational excellence. This devotion is expressed in his lecture, "The Essence of Truth" (1931), which Heidegger later cited (1945) as his near-to-mind orientation as Rector.