Follow Against Professional Philosophy, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/against-professional-philosophy Mon, 24 Jan 2022 22:40:36 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntSrHaPF1gD0ntuT6pSmY81 This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 23 Jan 2022 13:10:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntSrHaPF1gD0ntuT6pSmY81 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntSrHaPF1gD0t3hDS9njgCr This long essay, “A Theory of Human Dignity,” presents and defends a general theory of human dignity, with special attention paid to spelling out its background metaphysics, formulating and justifying a basic set of dignitarian moral principles, and critically addressing hard cases for the theory. “A Theory of Human Dignity” is being made available here … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 23 Jan 2022 13:05:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntSrHaPF1gD0t3hDS9njgCr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntVgWvHx_OPteGrEXdXG_66 This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 16 Jan 2022 13:45:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntVgWvHx_OPteGrEXdXG_66 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntVgWvHx_OPtf9M7fKGWt0o This long essay, “A Theory of Human Dignity,” presents and defends a general theory of human dignity, with special attention paid to spelling out its background metaphysics, formulating and justifying a basic set of dignitarian moral principles, and critically addressing hard cases for the theory. “A Theory of Human Dignity” is being made available here … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 16 Jan 2022 13:40:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntVgWvHx_OPtf9M7fKGWt0o https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnveLZiu-ZHglrG7Iy_4u0x9 This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 09 Jan 2022 19:55:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnveLZiu-ZHglrG7Iy_4u0x9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnveLZiu-ZHglsfGo0LrnZNO 1. Nature is Vitality itself. This Vitality is not the same as the entelekeia of Aristotle, or the entelechy of Hans Driesch. Both of these notions denote a purposive, teleological development. Instead, Vitality is manifestly real as a ceaseless differentiation in the spatiotemporal, physical order of things. Another word for Vitality is Life (with a … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 09 Jan 2022 19:50:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnveLZiu-ZHglsfGo0LrnZNO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuGAjiaV6ts6u4sICfMfkNm This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 02 Jan 2022 16:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuGAjiaV6ts6u4sICfMfkNm https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuGAjiaV6ts6qbel3Iu4GjH TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Aphorisms 1-11: Social Dictatorship 2. Aphorisms 12-24: State Power 3. Aphorisms 25-38: Guilt and Exculpation 4. Aphorisms 39-52: Confusion and Control 5. Aphorisms 53-61: The Myth of Order 6. Aphorisms 62-83: Mechanisms of the State Apparatus This is the sixth installment in the series. Mechanisms of the State Apparatus 62. Rituals … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 02 Jan 2022 15:55:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuGAjiaV6ts6qbel3Iu4GjH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnsEzteJZPynEd5ZnUTwRGH7 This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 26 Dec 2021 12:50:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnsEzteJZPynEd5ZnUTwRGH7 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnsEzteJZPynEWW0GqTRQSgk This long essay, “A Theory of Human Dignity,” presents and defends a general theory of human dignity, with special attention paid to spelling out its background metaphysics, formulating and justifying a basic set of dignitarian moral principles, and critically addressing hard cases for the theory. “A Theory of Human Dignity” is being made available here … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 26 Dec 2021 12:40:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnsEzteJZPynEWW0GqTRQSgk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnucLkc7sxw8cEFW8UNEQjUn This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 19 Dec 2021 13:15:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnucLkc7sxw8cEFW8UNEQjUn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnucLkc7sxw8cIeLGixeGJZp TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction                                                                                                 II. Refuting the Dignity-Skeptic and Debunking a Dignity-Debunking Argument                                                                   III. The Metaphysics of Human Dignity III.1 What Human Dignity Is III.2 Real Persons and Minded Animals III.3 A Metaphysical Definition of Real Personhood IV. Nonideal Dignitarian Moral Theory IV.0 How Nonideal Can a World Be? IV.1 The Skinny … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 19 Dec 2021 13:10:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnucLkc7sxw8cIeLGixeGJZp https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuxR5CqsmuXPQBC78OgjhDM This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 12 Dec 2021 12:45:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuxR5CqsmuXPQBC78OgjhDM https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuxR5CqsmuXPSxhxzpi7FpJ TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction                                                                                                 II. Refuting the Dignity-Skeptic and Debunking a Dignity-Debunking Argument                                                                   III. The Metaphysics of Human Dignity III.1 What Human Dignity Is III.2 Real Persons and Minded Animals III.3 A Metaphysical Definition of Real Personhood IV. Nonideal Dignitarian Moral Theory IV.0 How Nonideal Can a World Be? IV.1 The Skinny … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 12 Dec 2021 12:40:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuxR5CqsmuXPSxhxzpi7FpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuM9k1yrS6UdgSngkwrdsok You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. The State and other State-like social institutions are correctly characterized, as Max Weber pointed out, by their being social institutions that possess a territorial monopoly on the (putatively) legitimate means and use of coercion (Weber, 1994: p. … [continue reading]]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2021 07:35:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuM9k1yrS6UdgSngkwrdsok https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntEI_agb_-5rC3FFO_xyF25 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 really needs, it is the … [continue reading]]]> Mon, 29 Nov 2021 13:05:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntEI_agb_-5rC3FFO_xyF25 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgns5N36S3AOwrkFW8UNEQjUn You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Ultimate Nocebos In what follows, I’m going to argue that the modern State in general—by which I mean the Hobbesian classical liberal or neoliberal capitalist nation-State from the 17th century until 6am this morning—and the USA in … [continue reading]]]> Mon, 22 Nov 2021 09:45:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgns5N36S3AOwrkFW8UNEQjUn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgns5N36S3AOwriVCAQLB0bf5 Borderless Philosophy’s Editorial Team, whose members currently are Dennis Earl (Coastal Carolina Univ., USA) https://www.coastal.edu/academics/facultyprofiles/humanities/philosophyandreligiousstudies/dennisearl/, Robert Hanna (Independent, USA) (Editorial Team Co-Leader) https://roberthanna.academia.edu/, Michelle Maiese (Emmanuel College, USA) http://www.emmanuel.edu/academics/our-faculty/michelle-maiese.html, Pablo Muchnik (Emerson College, USA) https://www.emerson.edu/faculty-staff-directory/pablo-muchnik, Otto Paans (Independent, Netherlands) https://tu-berlin.academia.edu/OttoPaans, and Hugh Reginald (Independent, Canada) (Editorial Team Co- Leader), is pleased to announce a Third … [continue reading]]]> Mon, 22 Nov 2021 09:40:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgns5N36S3AOwriVCAQLB0bf5 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuw9z5I_wDI4NaXKMm36c-X You can also download and view or share this thought-shaper as a .pdf HERE. BACKGROUND READING 1. R. Hanna, “Gun Crazy: A Moral Argument For Gun Abolitionism,” (Unpublished MS, 2021), available online as a downloadable .pdf HERE and and on the APP blog HERE. 2. R. Hanna, “Life-Shaping Philosophy: The Shape of Lives to Come,” (Unpublished … [continue reading]]]> Mon, 15 Nov 2021 10:10:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuw9z5I_wDI4NaXKMm36c-X https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuw9z5I_wDI4ASngkwrdsok You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Gun Crazy: A Moral Argument For Gun Abolitionism I. Introduction 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 … [continue reading]]]> Mon, 15 Nov 2021 10:05:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuw9z5I_wDI4ASngkwrdsok