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740Dignity at the Limit: Jean-Luc Nancy on the Possibility of Incommensurable WorthContinental Philosophy Review 49 (3): 309-323. 2016.Dignity, according to some recent arguments, is a useless concept, giving vague expression to moral intuitions that are better captured by other, better defined concepts. In this paper, I defend the concept of dignity against such skeptical arguments. I begin with a description of the defining features of the Kantian conception of dignity. I then examine one of the strongest arguments against that conception, advanced by Arthur Schopenhauer in On the Basis of Morality. After considering some sta…Read more
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300On CosmopolitanismsIn Lucian Stone (ed.), Iranian Identity and Cosmopolitanism: Spheres of Belonging, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 159-175. 2014.
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268A Fact, As It Were: Obligation, Indifference, and the Question of EthicsEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (1): 219-234. 2016.According to Immanuel Kant, the objective validity of obligation is given as a fact of reason, which forces itself upon us and which requires no deduction of the kind that he had provided for the categories in the Critique of Pure Reason. This fact grounds a moral philosophy that treats obligation as a good that trumps all others and that presents the moral subject as radically responsible, singled out by an imperatival address. Based on conceptions of indifference and facticity that Charles Sco…Read more
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526Alterity in Merleau-Ponty’s Prose of the WorldEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (2): 425-442. 2012.I argue in this paper that Maurice Merleau-Ponty provides a compelling account of alterity in The Prose of the World. I begin by tracing this account of alterity back to its roots in Phenomenology of Perception. I then show how the dynamic of expression articulated in The Prose of the World overcomes the limitations of the account given in the earlier work. After addressing an objection to the effect that the account given in The Prose of the World fails for the same reason as the one given in P…Read more
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