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What does it mean to act in the light of a norm? According to Robert Pippin, despite promising overtures, and in contrast to Hegel, Heidegger has no coherent answer to this question. Steven Crowell disagrees. In responding to Pippin’s challenge, Crowell develops a sophisticated reading of Heidegger-on-norms that exploits and expands Heidegger’s inheritance of German Idealist thought around the topic of self-legislation. This chapter has two principal aims. Firstly, it argues that Crowell’s argument fails as a defense of Heidegger. Secondly, it develops a reading of Heidegger to provide an alternative response to Pippin’s challenge.
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Batho, D. (2021). Guidance for Mortals: Heidegger on Norms. In: Coe, C.D. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Phenomenology. Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66857-0_10
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