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List of contents
Introduction
First Part: We and the Other Animals
The Logical Animal - How Humans Became Animals The Specific Something Nature is not a Safari The Anthropocene as Hybris The Network: Plants, Bats, Fungi Continuity, Discontinuity, or Somehow Both? Shadowboxing What Does it Actually Mean to Understand Oneself as an Animal? Why We are Not Amphibians The Animal Word: Why the Zoo does not Exist Animalism, The Prestige, and The Anomaly The Human Animal as Machine? Animals Like Us? Korsgaard's Values Alice Crary - Inside Ethics Subjectivity and Objectivity - Why We Aren't Strangers in Nature The New Enlightenment in the Age of Living Beings Kant's Four Questions - Being Human is an Answer to a Question The Human Being as the Animal Who Doesn't Want to Be One
Second Part
Social Freedom and the Meaning of Life
The Basic Idea of Liberal Pluralism The History of Life The Idea of Life To Live and to Survive - The Basic Form of Human Society Do We Want to Live Forever? The Meaning in Life The Meaning of Life [pg. ] is Not Nonsense Nonsense is Sense-deprivation Limits of Liberal Pluralism? Who We Are and Who We Want to Be - Radical Autonomy and the New Enlightenment Social Freedom and the Meaning of Life Why Science Has Not Discovered that Life Has No Meaning From Mind Back to Nature
Third Part
Towards an Ethics of Not-Knowing
Nature, Environment, Universe In-itself and For-itself... Is Science Fiction? Limits of Scientific Knowledge Otherness - Towards an Ecological Ethics Under-complex, Complex, Hyper-complex Homo sapiens, Or, The Wise Words of Socrates Opinions, Knowledge, and the Idea of the Good Moral Reality and Ethical Facts Not-knowing Towards An Ethics of Not-knowing
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Notes
Index
About the author
Markus Gabriel holds the chair for Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Bonn and is also the Director of the International Center for Philosophy in Bonn.
