Mark Larrimore
Biographic Data
| ID | 1434921 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Larrimore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Larrimore |
| SIGNATURE | LARRIMORE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond “Kaput”
Loyalty in the Time of Catastrophe
Loyalty in the Time of Catastrophe:Anthropocene Reflections Mark Larrimore and C. Hannah Schell (bio) How paradoxical a world, then, must the real world be, if the faith of the loyal is indeed well founded! —Josiah Royce (1995, 144) loyalty is an old-fashioned virtue, and there are good reasons to be wary of it. Conjuring images of unthinking obedience to unworthy tyrants, freethinking liberals are suspicious when conservative voices celebrate it…
The German Invention of Race
Religion and the Promise of Happiness
The concepts of "religion" and "happiness" are deceptively simple—domesticated products of the modern liberal order—but probing their connections can be illuminating. Seeing religions as means to a generic kind of happiness blinds us to the promise and danger of religious difference. Seeing religion as compensation for the absence or unjust distribution of happiness reinforces unexamined worldly conceptions of happiness. To learn to think about r…
Introduction
This paper attempts to liberate the concept of "spirituality" from its apolitical consumerized present, and suggests that our thinking about selves as well as about secularity and religion must recognize its debts to Orientalist practices
Antinomies of race
Larrimore's essay reads Kant's pioneering work in the theory of race in the context of his thought as a whole. Kant wrote on race for most of his career; at different stages of his thinking, race assured meaning in human diversity, confirmed the value of a practical-reason-informed understanding of human destiny, and provided a model for the 'pragmatic' knowledge of what 'man can and should make of himself'. 'Race' was invented in 1775 as an adve…
German Invention of Race, The
German Invention of Race
Through a Glass Darkly
Substitutes for Wisdom
For much of Western history, the theory of the four temperaments played a vital part in medicine, anthropology, and moral reflection. The Hippocratic foursome of sanguine, choleric, melancholy, and phlegmatic survives on the margins of modernity, but its role in moral theory and practice has been largely forgotten. Premodern understandings of human diversity based in climate, temperament, and politics collapsed with the Galenic medical tradition …
Orientalism andAntivoluntarism in the History of Ethics
Christian Wolff's 1721 Discourse on the Practical Philosophy of the Chinese is generally read as championing the autonomy of ethics from religion. This is too simple: Wolff's ethics was an antivoluntarist religious ethics. The example of the Chinese confirmed for Wolff that revelation is not necessary for knowledge or practice of genuine virtue, though he held that the Chinese achieve only the first of three “degrees of virtue.” (Most Christians,…
Sublime Waste
Wir dürfen aber den Untergang eines Weltgebäudes nicht als einen wahren Verlust der Natur bedauren. Sie beweiset ihren Reichthum in einer Art von Verschwendung ... Der Mensch, der das Meisterstück der Schöpfung zu sein scheint, ist selbst von diesem Gesetze nicht ausgenommen. Immanuel Kant was an early and influential theorist on race. What place a theory of race could have within his system is, however, far from clear. Empirical knowledge about …
Antinomies of race
Larrimore's essay reads Kant's pioneering work in the theory of race in the context of his thought as a whole. Kant wrote on race for most of his career; at different stages of his thinking, race assured meaning in human diversity, confirmed the value of a practical-reason-informed understanding of human destiny, and provided a model for the 'pragmatic' knowledge of what 'man can and should make of himself'. 'Race' was invented in 1775 as an adve…
Substitutes for Wisdom
For much of Western history, the theory of the four temperaments played a vital part in medicine, anthropology, and moral reflection. The Hippocratic foursome of sanguine, choleric, melancholy, and phlegmatic survives on the margins of modernity, but its role in moral theory and practice has been largely forgotten. Premodern understandings of human diversity based in climate, temperament, and politics collapsed with the Galenic medical tradition …
Religion and the Promise of Happiness
The concepts of "religion" and "happiness" are deceptively simple—domesticated products of the modern liberal order—but probing their connections can be illuminating. Seeing religions as means to a generic kind of happiness blinds us to the promise and danger of religious difference. Seeing religion as compensation for the absence or unjust distribution of happiness reinforces unexamined worldly conceptions of happiness. To learn to think about r…
Sublime Waste
Wir dürfen aber den Untergang eines Weltgebäudes nicht als einen wahren Verlust der Natur bedauren. Sie beweiset ihren Reichthum in einer Art von Verschwendung ... Der Mensch, der das Meisterstück der Schöpfung zu sein scheint, ist selbst von diesem Gesetze nicht ausgenommen. Immanuel Kant was an early and influential theorist on race. What place a theory of race could have within his system is, however, far from clear. Empirical knowledge about …
Orientalism andAntivoluntarism in the History of Ethics
Christian Wolff's 1721 Discourse on the Practical Philosophy of the Chinese is generally read as championing the autonomy of ethics from religion. This is too simple: Wolff's ethics was an antivoluntarist religious ethics. The example of the Chinese confirmed for Wolff that revelation is not necessary for knowledge or practice of genuine virtue, though he held that the Chinese achieve only the first of three “degrees of virtue.” (Most Christians,…
Substitutes for Wisdom
For much of Western history, the theory of the four temperaments played a vital part in medicine, anthropology, and moral reflection. The Hippocratic foursome of sanguine, choleric, melancholy, and phlegmatic survives on the margins of modernity, but its role in moral theory and practice has been largely forgotten. Premodern understandings of human diversity based in climate, temperament, and politics collapsed with the Galenic medical tradition …
Through a Glass Darkly
German Invention of Race, The
German Invention of Race
Antinomies of race
Larrimore's essay reads Kant's pioneering work in the theory of race in the context of his thought as a whole. Kant wrote on race for most of his career; at different stages of his thinking, race assured meaning in human diversity, confirmed the value of a practical-reason-informed understanding of human destiny, and provided a model for the 'pragmatic' knowledge of what 'man can and should make of himself'. 'Race' was invented in 1775 as an adve…
Introduction
This paper attempts to liberate the concept of "spirituality" from its apolitical consumerized present, and suggests that our thinking about selves as well as about secularity and religion must recognize its debts to Orientalist practices
Religion and the Promise of Happiness
The concepts of "religion" and "happiness" are deceptively simple—domesticated products of the modern liberal order—but probing their connections can be illuminating. Seeing religions as means to a generic kind of happiness blinds us to the promise and danger of religious difference. Seeing religion as compensation for the absence or unjust distribution of happiness reinforces unexamined worldly conceptions of happiness. To learn to think about r…
The German Invention of Race
Beyond “Kaput”
Loyalty in the Time of Catastrophe
Loyalty in the Time of Catastrophe:Anthropocene Reflections Mark Larrimore and C. Hannah Schell (bio) How paradoxical a world, then, must the real world be, if the faith of the loyal is indeed well founded! —Josiah Royce (1995, 144) loyalty is an old-fashioned virtue, and there are good reasons to be wary of it. Conjuring images of unthinking obedience to unworthy tyrants, freethinking liberals are suspicious when conservative voices celebrate it…
Sociology (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)