The Concealment of Ethics

Abstract

To fully appreciate the worldhood of ethics it must be revealed through logos in the richest and most accurate way. According to Heidegger, phenomena can not only be intentionally accessed through a logos but also ‘covered up’ or ‘concealed’. Ways of covering up shed light indirectly on the logos of ethics. Until we see how ethics is covered up our ethical thought is liable to suffer from various forms of distortion. So to complete the discussion of the worldhood of ethics we need to not only expose the way ethics is opened up; we need also to be aware of the way it has been and is concealed.