From: Jacob Knee <jknee-AT-globalnet.co.uk>
Subject: RE: Ethos with Epsilon
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 10:26:41 +-100


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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From: 	Capurro Annette[SMTP:Capurro-AT-nepo1.iaea.or.at]
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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