H's use of Gk is notoriously eccentric - particluarly his etymologies (eg
the long debate over aletheia). The standard lexicon (in English) is
Liddell-Scott-Jones which is now in its 9th edition and has just had a new
supplement by Glare (published by OUP).
Jacob Knee
(Boston, Lincolnshire)
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Sent: 05 August 1996 11:08
To: heidegger
Subject: Ethos with Epsilon
Well Tom B. , I think Michael Eldred is right, you should buy a Greek
dictionary (actually I have to use very often an English one!) and you
should read Aristotle' s Nichomachean Ethics, there you will find a very
famous explanation of the word "ethics": in Greek you have two kinds of "e"
a short one (that is called epsilon) and a long one that is called "etha".
Ethics is being written with the long one, and Aristotle explains that the
origin of the word "Eethos" (wich Etha) is from "ethos" (wich Epsilon) that
means Character, whereas "eethos" means the habits or (latin) "mores"
(German: Sitten). Since German Idealism there is the distinction between
"Moralitaet" (as individual morality) and Sittlichkeit (the Morality
belonging to a society). The discussion between Heidegger and Levinas
refers to the question whether (roughly speaking) the personal ethics
(ethos with epsilon) is founded on "eethos" (this is in some way Heideggers
position) or the other way around. I do not think it makes to much sense to
think of ethos as a static view and morality as temporal view (particularly
not in Hs terms). By the say, if you want to understand H. you will have to
learn Greek...
Cheers
Rafael
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the long debate over aletheia). The standard lexicon (in English) is
Liddell-Scott-Jones which is now in its 9th edition and has just had a new
supplement by Glare (published by OUP).
Jacob Knee
(Boston, Lincolnshire)
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From: Capurro Annette[SMTP:Capurro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 05 August 1996 11:08
To: heidegger
Subject: Ethos with Epsilon
Well Tom B. , I think Michael Eldred is right, you should buy a Greek
dictionary (actually I have to use very often an English one!) and you
should read Aristotle' s Nichomachean Ethics, there you will find a very
famous explanation of the word "ethics": in Greek you have two kinds of "e"
a short one (that is called epsilon) and a long one that is called "etha".
Ethics is being written with the long one, and Aristotle explains that the
origin of the word "Eethos" (wich Etha) is from "ethos" (wich Epsilon) that
means Character, whereas "eethos" means the habits or (latin) "mores"
(German: Sitten). Since German Idealism there is the distinction between
"Moralitaet" (as individual morality) and Sittlichkeit (the Morality
belonging to a society). The discussion between Heidegger and Levinas
refers to the question whether (roughly speaking) the personal ethics
(ethos with epsilon) is founded on "eethos" (this is in some way Heideggers
position) or the other way around. I do not think it makes to much sense to
think of ethos as a static view and morality as temporal view (particularly
not in Hs terms). By the say, if you want to understand H. you will have to
learn Greek...
Cheers
Rafael
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