Since immemorial times, persons have been engaged in disputes in metaphysics. This book reacts to this fact by supporting five theses. Thesis 1 is that disputes are micro-wars that have a significant social importance; they involve conflicting parties who may resort to some kind of violence and depend on normative factors. Thesis 2 is that disputes can be approached from right-wing or left-wing stances. Thesis 3 is that the grounds for endorsing an approach to a dispute are problematic starting points that may be rationally rejected. Thesis 4 is that disputes have an incommensurable greatness. Thesis 5 is that right-wing approaches to disputes may be less appealing than the left-wing one championed by the book for those who endorse that one is to avoid expressing “subtle” violence. This is the violence expressed by those who suggest that others who disagree with one’s criteria to deal with disputes fall short of logos or act as if such others did not exist.
Author(s): Felipe G. A. Moreira
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 264
City: Cham
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Abbreviations
1: Introduction
1.1 Disputes as Micro-Wars
(a) What Are Micro-Wars?
(b) On Thesis 1 (First Defense)
1.2 The Conflictual Craft
(a) The Dogmatic Craft Versus The Skeptic Craft
(b) Avoiding Shortcomings
(c) Maintaining Positive Aspects
Part I: The Right-Wing Approach
2: The Properly Dogmatic “Subtle” Violence
2.1 On Thesis 2
(a) The Right-Wing/Left-Wing Distinction
(b) The Charlottesville Conflict
(c) On Thesis 1 (Second Defense)
(d) Is There a Properly Dogmatic “Subtle” Violence?
2.2 On Indisputable Metaphysical Claims
(a) Aristotle on Impossible Entities
(b) Anselm on God
(c) Hume on Superstitions
(d) Kant on Critical Philosophy
(e) Wittgenstein on the Logic of “Our” Language
(f) Hirsch on Mereological Sums
2.3 Against Narrow Conditions for Personhood
(a) Negotiating with the Criteria of Others
(b) On Broad Conditions for Personhood
3: The Pseudo-Non-dogmatic “Subtle” Violence
3.1 Avoiding the Properly Dogmatic “Subtle” Violence
(a) Distinguishing Two Kinds of “Subtle” Violence
(b) Quine on Essence I
(c) Kripke on Essence I
(d) Fine on Essence I
(e) Historical Plausibility and the Slavery Conflict
3.2 Expressing the Pseudo-Non-dogmatic “Subtle” Violence
(a) Historical Plausibility and the Information Conflict
(b) Is There a Pseudo-Non-dogmatic “Subtle” Violence?
(c) Quine on Essence II
(d) Kripke on Essence II
(e) Fine on Essence II
(f) Superficial and Deep Opponents
Part II: The Left-Wing Approach
4: Nietzsche vs. Carnap
4.1 Do Disputes Have Greatness?
(a) A Head Note
(b) Justifying the Focus on Nietzsche and Carnap I
(c) Nietzsche’s Libertarian Deflationism
(d) Carnap’s Egalitarian Deflationism
(e) On Thesis 3
4.2 What Is a Überwindung of Metaphysics?
(a) “Überwindung”
(b) Heidegger on “Metaphysics”
(c) The Seductive Character of Properly Metaphysical Uses of Language
(d) Nietzsche on “Metaphysics”
(e) Nietzsche’s Überwindung of Metaphysics
(f) Carnap on “Metaphysics”
(g) Carnap’s Überwindung of Metaphysics
4.3 What “Disease” Is Avoided and What “Health” Is Promoted Through a Überwindung of Metaphysics?
(a) Nietzsche on Health and Disease
(b) Carnap on Health and Disease
(c) Nietzsche’s Libertarian Treatment I: Macro Politics
(d) Nietzsche’s Libertarian Treatment II: Micro-politics
(e) Carnap’s Egalitarian Treatment I: Micro-politics
(f) Carnap’s Egalitarian Treatment II: Macro-politics
(g) Carnap Contra Nietzsche and Nietzsche Contra Carnap
(h) Nietzsche, Carnap and the Oppressed
5: Friedrich Carnap: Rudolf Nietzsche
5.1 Justifying the Focus on Nietzsche and Carnap II
(a) Foucault’s Nietzschean Libertarian Treatment
(b) Derrida’s Nietzschean Libertarian Treatment
(c) Allusive Endorsements of Carnap’s Egalitarian Treatment
(d) Lewis, Van Inwagen and Carnap’s Egalitarian Treatment
(e) Carnap’s Positive Published Remarks on Nietzsche
5.2 Avoiding Shortcomings While Maintaining Positive Aspects
(a) Synthesis and Caipirinha
(b) Less Nietzsche More Carnap I: On Oppressors
(c) Less Carnap More Nietzsche I: On Cognitive Meaning
(d) Less Nietzsche More Carnap II: On Justifications
(e) Less Carnap More Nietzsche II: On Linguistic Frameworks
(f) Health and Disease Revised
(g) On Thesis 4
6: Beyond Nietzsche and Carnap
6.1 Immaculately Conceiving Monstrous Child DeleuzeCounterpart
(a) A Reply to the Obscurity Objection
(b) Deleuze’s Immaculate Conception
(c) Deleuze’s Shortcoming I and the “Subtly” Colonized Approach
(d) Deleuze’s Shortcoming II and Avantgarde Imperialism
(e) Deleuze’s Shortcoming III and Modernism
6.2 On Thesis 5
(a) The Expression “May as Well” in Thesis 5
(b) On Metamodernism and the Left-Wing (Open-Mindedness)
(c) Imperialisms and the Left-Wing (Tolerance)
(d) The “Subtly” Colonized Approach and the Left-Wing (New Balance)
7: Conclusion
7.1 Recapitulation
7.2 Provisional Last Words
(a) To the Upfront Right-Wing Philosopher Counterpart
(b) To the Likes of the Isentão
(c) To Champions of the “Subtly” Colonized Approach
References
Index
