Logos-Ethos-Mythos: Heidegger’s Dweller and Lopez’s Arctic Dreams

• Published in: Scientia - The International Journal on the Liberal Arts
• Main Author: Marc Oliver Pasco
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Tagalog
• Published: College of Liberal Arts, San Beda College 2019
• Subjects: Heidegger; environmental ethics; logos; mythos; Eskimo; General Works; A; Language and Literature; P; Arctic; Harper; eskimo*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.57106/scientia.v8i1.103; https://doaj.org/article/b9a58dd72e0c46a995f024470080fec2

This paper tries to shed light upon Martin Heidegger’s thoughts concerning the crisis of homelessness which the thinker calls THE plight. Heidegger’s insights concerning language guide the course of the exposition. Aside from Heidegger, it examines Barry Lopez’s book Arctic Dreams, specifically the chapter entitled “The Country of The Mind” as a complementary resource for grounding the main points discussed in the paper. It is an exposition concerned with the relationship between logos, ethos and mythos. The paper is a reflection on the relationship between these three words, which can hopefully provide a compass, resting neither simply on an axiology nor an occidental or oriental metaphysics, that may serve as a guide in gaining a renewed ethical way of being in the world. Ultimately, it shows that the questions which have been confronted by environmental ethics is essentially the question concerning our response to the primordial givenness of our place in the fourfold and our hearing of the silent voice of language. References Attfield, Robin. The Ethics of the Global Environment. Indiana: Purdue University Press,1999. Attfield, Robin and Katharine Dell, Eds. Values, conflict and the environment. 2nd ed.Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1998. Campbell, Joseph. The Power of Myth. Eds. Betty Sue Flowers. New York: Doubleday Publishing, 1988. Foltz, Bruce. Inhabiting the Earth: Heidegger, Environmental Ethics and the Metaphysics Of Nature. New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1995. Heidegger, Martin. “A Dialogue on Language,” In On the Way to Language. Translated by Peter D. Hertz. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1971. ________. “Building Dwelling Thinking,” In Basic Writings. Edited by David Farrell Krell. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1977. ________. “Language,” In Poetry, Language, Thought. Translated by Albert Hofstadter. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1971. ________. “Letter on Humanism,” In Basic Writings. Edited by David Farrell Krell. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1977. ________. ...