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"?
we have a noumenal and trascendental side, a side which escapes relationality
to put the point less invidiously
the distinction between things related and relations is just an alternative way of making the distinction between what we are talking about and what we say about it. The latter distinction is, as Whitehead said, just a hypostatization of the relation between linguistic subject and linguistic predicate
