Table of Contents I. Introduction II. The Standard Conception of Morality II.1 The Moral Question and The Meaning Question II.2 How Ethics Relates to Morality II.3 How Morality Relates to Rationality II.4 Six Famously Hard Cases III. Three Classical Challenges to the Standard Conception of Morality III.1 Moral Relativism III.2 Eight Logical Principles of Human … [continue reading]
Monthly Archives: August 2020
MORALITY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION, #26–Is Death a Bad Thing For the One Who Dies?
Table of Contents I. Introduction II. The Standard Conception of Morality II.1 The Moral Question and The Meaning Question II.2 How Ethics Relates to Morality II.3 How Morality Relates to Rationality II.4 Six Famously Hard Cases III. Three Classical Challenges to the Standard Conception of Morality III.1 Moral Relativism III.2 Eight Logical Principles of Human … [continue reading]
Attacking A Person By Rejecting Their Beliefs: The Reverse Ad Hominem Fallacy.
RH: Last night between sleeps I was thinking about two of our recent posts—“Immanuel Kant—Racist and Colonialist?,”[i] and “Being Oppressed vs. Being Offended: Why A Real Dialogue About Racism is Still Far Away,”[ii]—in relation to each other. The Kant post criticizes ad hominem attacks on classical figures in the history of philosophy in the name … [continue reading]
MORALITY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION, #25–Nagel On the Nature of Our Own Death.
Table of Contents I. Introduction II. The Standard Conception of Morality II.1 The Moral Question and The Meaning Question II.2 How Ethics Relates to Morality II.3 How Morality Relates to Rationality II.4 Six Famously Hard Cases III. Three Classical Challenges to the Standard Conception of Morality III.1 Moral Relativism III.2 Eight Logical Principles of Human … [continue reading]
Philosophy and Cognition in the Age of Mechanical-Digital Reproduction, #3—The Ground of the Aura.
Previous Installments in This Series #2: Modes of Perception, Modes of Existence #1: Introduction: The Disappearance of Authenticity, The Appearance of Estrangement III. The Ground of the Aura In his 1936 essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” Walter Benjamin introduces one of his most notorious concepts: the “aura” of a … [continue reading]
Immanuel Kant–Racist and Colonialist?
APP Editor’s Note The following essay, Vadim Chaly’s “Immanuel Kant–Racist and Colonialist?,” was originally published in the Kantian Journal 39 (2020): 94-98. You can also download or read a complete .pdf of this essay, in both English and Russian, HERE. Vadim Chaly is Professor of Philosophy at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University in Kaliningrad, Russia. … [continue reading]
MORALITY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION, #24–The Concept of Death is Five Ways Ambiguous.
Table of Contents I. Introduction II. The Standard Conception of Morality II.1 The Moral Question and The Meaning Question II.2 How Ethics Relates to Morality II.3 How Morality Relates to Rationality II.4 Six Famously Hard Cases III. Three Classical Challenges to the Standard Conception of Morality III.1 Moral Relativism III.2 Eight Logical Principles of Human … [continue reading]
Susan Haack’s “Not One of the Boys: Memoir of an Academic Misfit.”
APP Editor’s Introduction, by Robert Hanna, aka Z Susan Haack is not only a real philosopher–by which I mean an authentic, serious philosopher–she is also an all-around brilliant real philosopher, and a truly independent thinker. Indeed, she is arguably the greatest living philosopher, whether inside or outside the professional academy. And among other truly independent … [continue reading]