Heidegger's Call for Conscience A Preliminary Exploration of Heidegger's Existentialist Ethics

Conscience is generally regarded as a certain definite concept and directly applied to the discussion of ethical issues. However, Heidegger, starting from the fundamental ontology, re endowed the ontological significance of conscience. Heidegger also gave ethical significance to the call of conscience due to the foundational role of foundational ontology. This article will first elaborate on the relationship between Dasein and Falling in Being and Time, explaining that Dasein is "Being in the World", and Falling is the inauthentic existence of Dasein. Secondly, in order to achieve authentic existence, people need to turn to the discussion of conscience. Heidegger's conscience is the conscience of existentialism, which means that people need to be aware of their own guilt. This guilt means that existence is a free existence, and on this basis, through resoluteness, people can realize the call of conscience. At the same time, Heidegger's discussion of this issue involves a discussion of ethical ontology, which has a different ethical significance from normative ethics in terms of the authentic existence.