COMM 2273 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Martin Heidegger, Perfectly Clear
10 Feb 2020
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At infinite regress: this is also an epistemological issue which undermines the possibility of arguing in the first place. To why should i follow x ethic you can reply why should i question it. heidegger: Indeed the principle of reason is, as a principle, not nothing. Therefore, according to what the principle itself tells us, it is the sort of thing that must have a reason. The principle itself behooves us to ask this question. On the one hand we bristle at continuing to question in this way because it seems to be a twisted and caviling question in contradistinction to the simple principle of reason. On the other hand we see that the principle of reason itself compels us, in a manner apropos of the principle of reason, to ask about reasons even in relation to the principle of reason. We are faced by two possibilities, both of which equally provoke our thinking.
