Improvisation as Original Ethics: Exploring the Ethical in Heidegger and Gadamer from a Musical Perspective

Martin Heidegger famously claimed that ethics needed to become “original” again, but offered no detailed insight into what an “original ethics” might be. Several commentators, however, find evidence of such an original ethics in the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer. In this paper I...

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Autor principal:	Sam McAuliffe
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Publicado:	University of Calgary 2021
Materias:	Philosophy (General) B1-5802
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d5efdb0b7d8e465baaeee4e086eb91682021-11-25T21:18:50ZImprovisation as Original Ethics: Exploring the Ethical in Heidegger and Gadamer from a Musical Perspective10.11575/jah.v2021i2021.726341927-4416https://doaj.org/article/d5efdb0b7d8e465baaeee4e086eb91682021-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jah/article/view/72634https://doaj.org/toc/1927-4416 Martin Heidegger famously claimed that ethics needed to become “original” again, but offered no detailed insight into what an “original ethics” might be. Several commentators, however, find evidence of such an original ethics in the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer. In this paper I argue that an original ethics, as alluded to by Heidegger and taken up by Gadamer, depends upon a certain improvisational comportment, such that acting ethically involves spontaneously attending and responding to that which one encounters in factical existence. To substantiate this claim, I draw upon improvised musical performance as an exemplar, highlighting how the responsiveness at issue in musical improvisation is equally present in an original ethics, which is itself demonstrative of a practical, performative, and spontaneous engagement with the world. This account not only elucidates the improvisational character of ethics, it equally illuminates the nature of the ethical at issue in improvised musical performance. Sam McAuliffeUniversity of CalgaryarticlePhilosophy (General)B1-5802ENJournal of Applied Hermeneutics, Vol 2021, Iss 2021 (2021)
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description	Martin Heidegger famously claimed that ethics needed to become “original” again, but offered no detailed insight into what an “original ethics” might be. Several commentators, however, find evidence of such an original ethics in the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer. In this paper I argue that an original ethics, as alluded to by Heidegger and taken up by Gadamer, depends upon a certain improvisational comportment, such that acting ethically involves spontaneously attending and responding to that which one encounters in factical existence. To substantiate this claim, I draw upon improvised musical performance as an exemplar, highlighting how the responsiveness at issue in musical improvisation is equally present in an original ethics, which is itself demonstrative of a practical, performative, and spontaneous engagement with the world. This account not only elucidates the improvisational character of ethics, it equally illuminates the nature of the ethical at issue in improvised musical performance.
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title_short	Improvisation as Original Ethics: Exploring the Ethical in Heidegger and Gadamer from a Musical Perspective
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Improvisation as Original Ethics: Exploring the Ethical in Heidegger and Gadamer from a Musical Perspective

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