abnegation
a wholesale abnegation of our aspirations to something 'higher' than mere animality
a wholesale abnegation of our aspirations to something 'higher' than mere animality
confused duty with self-interest, the intrinsic authority of the moral law with the banausic need to bargain with opponents whom one cannot overcome
probably related to "banal"?
Morality and law, on the other hand, begin when controversy arises. We invent both when we can no longer just do what comes naturally, when routine is no longer good enough, or when habit and custom no longer suffice. These will no longer suffice when the individual's needs begin to clash with thos…
we have a noumenal and trascendental side, a side which escapes relationality