If Ethical Life is to be Viable, Must We then be Transcendental Subjects, not Wholly in Space and Time?Mark Johnston (Princeton University ), Mark Johnston
May 3, 2019, 11:30am - 1:30pm
Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
32-D461
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge 02139
United States
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abstract:
"If something like pure Hedonistic Utilitarianism—which depicts persons as mere receptacles of what is fundamentally valuable—is true, then the answer is no. But otherwise, as far as I can see, if ethical life is to be viable, then yes, we have to be transcendental subjects—subjects, indeed agents, that are not exhausted by the very probably, causally closed structure of our spatiotemporal footprints. Hedonism or Transcendentalism? That is the core question lying behind ethical life. The talk will show just how the philosophy of personal identity can establish these as the two coherent options, if ethical life is to be viable."
"If something like pure Hedonistic Utilitarianism—which depicts persons as mere receptacles of what is fundamentally valuable—is true, then the answer is no. But otherwise, as far as I can see, if ethical life is to be viable, then yes, we have to be transcendental subjects—subjects, indeed agents, that are not exhausted by the very probably, causally closed structure of our spatiotemporal footprints. Hedonism or Transcendentalism? That is the core question lying behind ethical life. The talk will show just how the philosophy of personal identity can establish these as the two coherent options, if ethical life is to be viable."
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