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Value-Feeling and Moral Education: Pedagogical Remarks on Dietrich Von Hildebrand’s Phenomenology

2021

The paper orbits around the pedagogical relevance of value-feeling in Dietrich von Hildebrand’s ethical perspective. In particular, his early works—namely, his PhD Thesis and Habilitationsschrift, entitled Die Idee der sittlichen Handlung and Sittlichkeit und ethische Werterkenntnis respectively—will be considered insofar as they include an account of the intentional act of value-feeling (Wertfühlen). This recalls the main claims on emotions shared by the members of the Munich and Gottingen Circle: i.e., the stratification of emotional life, the intentionality of emotion and feeling, and, most of all, their moral dimension. After briefly portraying von Hildebrand’s early life, his debt towa…