We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them. (Pascal, 1995: #110, p. 28)
If there is any science humankind…
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In what follows, I argue that not only (i) owning, carrying, or using guns, but also (ii) The 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution, and (iii) their essential consequence, gun violence, are…
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Nine Years After
Nine years after, I think it’s safe to say that Thomas Nagel’s 2012 book, Mind and Cosmos[i] was extremely controversial, both inside the intellectual hothouse of professional academic philosophy and…
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Let’s consider the visual image displayed immediately above: what thoughts and emotions does this depiction of a worker slumped over his open laptop computer, with a supersized clock looming overhead, spontaneously suggest to…
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Human reason has this peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss, since they are given to it as problems by the nature…
II. Refuting the Dignity-Skeptic and Debunking a Dignity-Debunking Argument
III. The Metaphysics of Human Dignity
III.2 Real Persons and Minded Animals
III.3 A Metaphysical Definition of Real Personhood
IV. Nonideal Dignitarian Moral Theory
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In 1998, at The World Philosophy Congress in Boston, W.V.O. …
