Remarks on the origin of morality: an Approach between Heidegger and Winnicott

Abstract

Frorn the approach between Heidegger's and Winnicott'sconceptions about rhe existential condition of the human being, this paper proposes that the phase of primitive ernorional development, which Winnicott calls "stage of concern", can help us to comprehend the origin of the essential phenomenon of Fürsorge - the capacity of a human being to have concern for, to care about, another -, which Heidegger describes, in Being and time, as the essential structural characteristic of Dasein's way of being-with-others. This approach opens a path to prepare an ontological-existential interpretation of the results of the maturational process related to the origin of morality.