By Robert Hanna
II. Refuting the Dignity-Skeptic and Debunking a Dignity-Debunking Argument
III. The Metaphysics of Human Dignity
IV. Nonideal Dignitarian Moral Theory
V. Some Hard Cases For Broadly Kantian Nonideal Dignitarian Moral Theory
VI. Enacting Human Dignity and The Mind-Body Politic
VII. Conclusion
This installment contains the first part of section III.
But you can also read or download a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE.
According to the broadly Kantian theory of human dignity, human dignity is the absolute, non-denumerably infinite, intrinsic, and objective value of human real persons as ends-in-themselves, and human…
II. Classical Analytic Philosophy
II.1 What Classical Analytic Philosophy Is: Two Basic Theses
II.2 What Classical Analytic Philosophy Officially Isn’t: Its Conflicted Anti-Kantianism
II.3 Classical Analytic Philosophy Characterized in Simple, Subtler, and Subtlest Ways
II.4 Three Kinds of Analysis: Decompositional, Transformative, and Conceptual
II.5 Frege, The First Founding Father of Classical Analytic Philosophy
II.6 Frege’s Project of (Transformative or Reductive) Analysis
II.8 Frege’s Semantics of Sense and Reference, aka Meaning
II.9 Some Biggish Problems For Frege’s Semantics
II.10 Husserl, Logic, and Logical Psychologism, aka LP
[I] was then making plans for a work that might perhaps have the title, “The Limits of Sense and Reason.” I planned to have it consist of two parts, a theoretical and a practical. The first part would have two sections, (1) general phenomenology and (2) metaphysics, but this only with regard to its method. (Letter to Marcus Herz, 21 February 1772 [C 10: 129])
II. Classical Analytic Philosophy
II.1 What Classical Analytic Philosophy Is: Two Basic Theses
II.2 What Classical Analytic Philosophy Officially Isn’t: Its Conflicted Anti-Kantianism
II.3 Classical Analytic Philosophy Characterized in Simple, Subtler, and Subtlest Ways
II.4 Three Kinds of Analysis: Decompositional, Transformative, and Conceptual
II.5 Frege, The First Founding Father of Classical Analytic Philosophy
II.6 Frege’s Project of (Transformative or Reductive) Analysis
II.8 Frege’s Semantics of Sense and Reference, aka Meaning
II.9 Some Biggish Problems For Frege’s Semantics
II.10 Husserl, Logic, and Logical Psychologism, aka LP
You can also download or read a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE.
Irrationality, supposedly, is the contrary of human rationality, and human rationality is assumed to be an inherently good thing; hence — if irrationality really exists — then it’s the same as the fact or phenomenon of human unreason or human anti-reason, and it’s also an inherently bad thing that should always be criticized.
Indeed, there’s even a much-touted recent book by Justin E.H. Smith, called Irrationality, as per the following book blurb:
It’s a story we can’t stop telling ourselves. Once, humans were benighted…
Thus profound metaphysics is rooted in an implicit geometry which — whether we will or not — confers spatiality upon thought; if a metaphysician could not draw, what would he think?
— Gaston Bachelard, Dialectics of Inside and Outside
[I]f pure experience means to know things just as they are, then simplicity or passivity are not characteristics of it — the truly direct state is constitutive and active.
— Kitarō Nishida, An Inquiry Into the Good
This essay is an elaborated and extended version of an earlier essay, “How To Do Real Metaphysics: 22 Theses.”[i] In this revised version, I’ve…
[I] was then making plans for a work that might perhaps have the title, “The Limits of Sense and Reason.” I planned to have it consist of two parts, a theoretical and a practical. The first part would have two sections, (1) general phenomenology and (2) metaphysics, but this only with regard to its method. (Letter to Marcus Herz, 21 February 1772 [C 10: 129])
If there is one thing that the past four years have taught us, it is that Western democracy is imploding at a rate that its defenders could not foresee, and that they will turn out to be powerless to stop.
Why? The answer is simple: we have not taken the core lesson of philosophical anarchism to heart. Instead, we nurtured the State, in the false hope that it would — via representative democracy — act in our best interest. Or: we kept a rabid dog, in the hope that it would not bite us.
Instead, the State (i.e. the governmental…
II. Classical Analytic Philosophy
II.1 What Classical Analytic Philosophy Is: Two Basic Theses
II.2 What Classical Analytic Philosophy Officially Isn’t: Its Conflicted Anti-Kantianism
II.3 Classical Analytic Philosophy Characterized in Simple, Subtler, and Subtlest Ways
II.4 Three Kinds of Analysis: Decompositional, Transformative, and Conceptual
II.5 Frege, The First Founding Father of Classical Analytic Philosophy
II.6 Frege’s Project of (Transformative or Reductive) Analysis
II.8 Frege’s Semantics of Sense and Reference, aka Meaning
II.9 Some Biggish Problems For Frege’s Semantics
II.10 Husserl, Logic, and Logical Psychologism, aka LP
II. Refuting the Dignity-Skeptic and Debunking a Dignity-Debunking Argument
III. The Metaphysics of Human Dignity
IV. Nonideal Dignitarian Moral Theory
V. Some Hard Cases For Broadly Kantian Nonideal Dignitarian Moral Theory
VI. Enacting Human Dignity and The Mind-Body Politic
VII. Conclusion
This installment contains section II.
But you can also read or download a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE.
The dignity-skeptic is anyone who, for any reason whatsoever, denies the real existence of human dignity. But if one asked the dignity-skeptic the following question,
“Would you or could you rationally consent to being summarily…
Formerly Captain Nemo. A not-so-very-angry, but still unemployed, full-time philosopher-nobody.