Philosophical Constraints on Normativity

• Authors: Margolis Joseph
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This essay is an exploratory reflection on a theme drawn from the work of Pierre Hadot and Juliusz Domański regarding “philosophy as a way of life.” I approach the matter from the naturalistic outlook of classic pragmatism and its own limitations. This approach stresses the possible improvement of the analysis of normativity by way of some neglected contributions regarding the nature of history and the evolution of Homo sapiens applied to the formation of the human self or person. I take Hadot’s proposal seriously, therefore, as contributing to a mature conception of philosophy. But I deliberately restrict my own conjectures to naturalistic constraints, which begins to suggest an enlargement of pragmatism itself and an assessment of Hadot’s Greco-Roman and Christian themes.

Keywords

EN

pragmatism; historicism; Hadot; Peirce; artifactuality; self; abduction; normativity

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 4(10)
• Pages: 101-113

Dates

published

2019-12-31

Contributors

author

Margolis Joseph

• Department of Philosophy, Temple University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/eidos.jpc.2019.0044