Notes on Cheshire Calhoun,“Standing for Something.”
[Against the background of some contemporary conceptions of integrity as a virtue, Calhoun will argue that this virtue, whatever private merit it may have, is in the end a “master” social virtue not only because of its deployment of so many other virtues but because of its critical role in […]
Category: Moral Consciousness
Types of integrity
Hitler’s “favorite Jew”
Notes on:
Brigitte Hamann, Hitler’s Vienna: A Dictator’s Apprenticeship
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Of Weininger: “a profoundly unhappy man of great integrity who perished of his own philosophy.”
Weininger’s moral climate: Jews were associated with the “sexual permissiveness glorified by Viennese modernism.” [See “Damned if we do…” for more on why.]
228
They were thought of as uncreative and parasitical, ideas documented in Richard […]
“Rough sex,” self-hate, and truth tables
Notes on:
Arthur Evans, “The Logic of Homophobia”
Evans presents a common and severe view of Weininger, and blithely extends it to Wittgenstein—certainly, a kindred spirit. He seems inclined to take Weininger’s misogyny at face value and links it to a certain excessive philologian tendency, finding both equally irredeemable. Though Evans charges Weininger, somewhat unimaginatively, with all […]
A dubious internalist assumption
Notes on:
Matthias Steup, “A Defense of Internalism”
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Steup takes “internalism to be the view that J-factors [things that make beliefs justified or not] must be directly recognizable, that is recognizable on reflection.” The idea is that if one has available now, or could deduce from what is available now, information to justify a belief then one […]
A “sifting humour”
Certain analogies between moral and epistemological problems
Moral sentiment
Reactions to Robert C. Solomon’s views on sentimentality
Henids and the doxic life
Cognitive emotions and Weininger’s henids
Weininger’s misogyny (or what we talk about when we talk about hate)
Was Otto Weininger a misogynist? Or are we missing something?
fear of the most unworthy
Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1889, Kaufmann translation, “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man”, sec. 46:
Here the view is free.— It may be nobility of the soul [Höhe der Seele] when a philosopher is silent, it may be love when he contradicts himself; and he who has knowledge maybe polite enough to lie. It has been […]
The serpent and the dove
Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; only, on the other [405] hand, it is very sad that it cannot well maintain itself and is easily seduced. [Kant, Fundamental Principles of a Metaphysics of Morals, First Section, par. 20 (Abbott trans., pp. 404-5).]
But how can we admire innocence? The fact is we can’t. Or, turning […]
