L’autonomie de la morale

L'auteur défend la thèse selon laquelle la morale constitue un domaine de valeur irréductible. Il n'existe à l'extérieur de la morale aucun point de vue d'où la raison peut nous amener à une juste intelligence de la nature de la vie morale. Cette thèse est développée non seulement contre la perspective hobbésienne, mais aussi contre certains aspects centraux de la pensée kantienne. Au lieu d'une morale de l'autonomie, c'est en effet l'autonomie de la morale qu'il faut embrasser. Une telle conception exige pourtant que l'on abandonne une des plus grandes idéologies philosophiques de notre époque, à savoir l'image naturaliste du monde.The author defends the thesis that morality constitutes an irreducible domain of value. There is no point of view external to morality from which we can reason ourselves into a proper appreciation of the nature of the moral life. This thesis is developed not only by way of objections to the Hobbesian perspective, but also in criticism of certain central aspects of Kantian ethics. Instead of a morality of autonomy, it is the autonomy of morality which we should embrace. Such a view of morality requires, however, that we break with a. reigning philosophical ideology of our time, namely the naturalistic conception of the world

Beyond Religion and Enlightenment

This Article addresses the theory that modern society is beyond religion. The author reasons that secularization is the result of Judeo-Christian monotheism. God\u27s transcendence has led to his withdrawal from the world and thus to the autonomy of the world. The author analyzes such views and addresses the reasons for morality in modern society; whether it stems from belief in God, or a modern view that God is not necessary in order to have morality

Annotating Relationships between Multiple Mixed-media Digital Objects by Extending Annotea

Annotea provides an annotation protocol to support collaborative Semantic Web-based annotation of digital resources accessible through the Web. It provides a model whereby a user may attach supplementary information to a resource or part of a resource in the form of: either a simple textual comment; a hyperlink to another web page; a local file; or a semantic tag extracted from a formal ontology and controlled vocabulary. Hence, annotations can be used to attach subjective notes, comments, rankings, queries or tags to enable semantic reasoning across web resources. More recently tabbed Browsers and specific annotation tools, allow users to view several resources (e.g., images, video, audio, text, HTML, PDF) simultaneously in order to carry out side-by-side comparisons. In such scenarios, users frequently want to be able to create and annotate a link or relationship between two or more objects or between segments within those objects. For example, a user might want to create a link between a scene in an original film and the corresponding scene in a remake and attach an annotation to that link. Based on past experiences gained from implementing Annotea within different communities in order to enable knowledge capture, this paper describes and compares alternative ways in which the Annotea Schema may be extended for the purpose of annotating links between multiple resources (or segments of resources). It concludes by identifying and recommending an optimum approach which will enhance the power, flexibility and applicability of Annotea in many domains

The roots of romantic cognitivism:(post) Kantian intellectual intuition and the unity of creation and discovery

During the romantic period, various authors expressed the belief that through creativity, we can directly access truth. To modern ears, this claim sounds strange. In this paper, I attempt to render the position comprehensible, and to show how it came to seem plausible to the romantics. I begin by offering examples of this position as found in the work of the British romantics. Each thinks that the deepest knowledge can only be gained by an act of creativity. I suggest the belief should be seen in the context of the post-Kantian embrace of “intellectual intuition.” Unresolved tensions in Kant's philosophy had encouraged a belief that creation and discovery were not distinct categories. The post-Kantians held that in certain cases of knowledge (for Fichte, knowledge of self and world; for Schelling, knowledge of the Absolute) the distinction between discovering a truth and creating that truth dissolves. In this context, the cognitive role assigned to acts of creativity is not without its own appeal

La critique newtonienne de la méthode cartésienne

Charles Larmore : Newton's criticism of Cartesian method. Newton's statement " hypotheses non fingo " has often been wrongly taken as an expression of dogmatism, and thus as an indication that his Cartesian opponents had a more acceptable, corrigibilist view of scientific method. In this article I try to show that the Cartesians were the real dogmatists, because of their a priori claim that all action of one body on another must be mechanical. Newton preferred to leave this controversial issue open, arguing that he could establish, independently of it, some important truths about this phenomenon. In the process he developed a new, corrigibilist conception of certainty.Larmore Charles. La critique newtonienne de la méthode cartésienne. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°18, 1986. Littératures françaises. pp. 269-279

2. Giustificazione, verità, corrispondenza

Come giustificare una teoria morale Nel corso della lezione sull’eterogeneità della morale ho parlato del problema generale che consiste nello scoprire la struttura interna della nostra esperienza morale, e ho proposto una spiegazione di che cosa sia questa struttura interna. Ho concluso che in definitiva non si tratta di un unico principio, ma di un insieme di principi fondamentali del ragionamento morale. Ovviamente, quando ho cominciato ad analizzare quella che chiamo la nostra “esperienza..