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]
Author Archives: Robert Hanna
Science Is Real, But Not So Damned Real.
You can also read or download a complete .pdf version of this essay HERE. I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real.[i] In my neighborhood, many people have put up signs that look like this: Now one thing I noticed immediately is … [continue reading]
MORALITY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION, #22–All About Authenticity.
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]
Popular Philosophy, “Populist Philosophy,” Mind-Manacled Philosophy, and Real Philosophy.
You can download a .pdf version of this edgy essay HERE. In every cry of every Man,In every Infants cry of fear,In every voice: in every ban,The mind-forg’d manacles I hear.[i] [P]hilosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, … [continue reading]
MORALITY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION, #21–Camus and Affirmation.
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]
THE LIMITS OF SENSE AND REASON: A Line-By-Line Critical Commentary on Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason,” #5.
[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. … [continue reading]
MORALITY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION, #20–Nagel and The Absurd.
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]
MORALITY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION, #19–Two Kinds of Existentialism.
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]
Memory, “Alternative Facts,” and the Political Philosophy of Cognition, #4–The Political Philosophy of Memory, & Conclusion.
APP EDITORS’ NOTE: The essay re-published below was originally published in Borderless Philosophy 1 (2018). This final installment contains sections 4 and 5. But you can also read or download a .pdf version of the complete text HERE. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Varieties of Memory 3. Strong Non-Conceptualism and Radically Naïve Realism about … [continue reading]
MORALITY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION, #18–Pascal or Schopenhauer? Optimism or Pessimism?
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]