Detachment and Affectivity as Structures of Openness: Meister Eckhart’s Contribution to Situated Ethics Read in the Light of the Young Heidegger
Religions March 6, 2026 María Luisa Brantt
Contemporary ethical reflection is undergoing a crisis of its traditional normative foundations, which have proven difficult to reconcile with the affective, vulnerable and situated nature of moral experience. In this context, this article examines Meister Eckhart’s thought in light of Martin Heidegger’s early phenomenology–hermeneutics in order to reconsider the place of affectivity in ethics....