Philosophers have constantly seized upon some distinctive feature of human life in order to give our intuition of our uniqueness a “firm philosophical basis.” Because these firm bases are so varied, naturalisms and materialisms, when not shrugged off as hopeless attempts to jump a vast ontological (or epistemological, or linguistic) gulf, are often treated as trivially true but pointless. They are pointless, it is explained, because our uniqueness has nothing whatever to do with whichever abyss the naturalist has laboriously filled in, but everything to do with some other abyss which has all
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09-02-2020. 36. Like our reasoning with morality. If you believe in morality you must be a dualist!
