Being and Time, part 7: Conscience | Simon Critchley

For Heidegger, the call of conscience is one that silences the chatter of the world and brings me back to myself

After the existential drama of Heidegger's notion of being-towards-death, why do we need a discussion of conscience? As so often in Being and Time, Heidegger insists that although his description of being-towards-death is formally or ontologically correct, it needs more compelling content at what Heidegger calls the "ontic" level, that is, at the level of experience. Finitude gets a...