Sunday, April 6, 2014

Trust, Respect, Sympathy, Tolerance

Regardless of the promotion of them in some societies, Sympathy and Tolerance each entails condescension, and Tolerance often retains the hostility to which it is projected as a counter.  Instead, according to Kant, the Rational expression of interpersonal equality is Respect.  However, Respect remains a static I-I relation, if not an I-Your, e. g. when one treats another as an End.  In contrast, a dynamic We is mediated by mutual Trust.  Indeed, while Kant struggles to demonstrate how False Promising is conduct unbecoming a Rational being, the recognition of it as breaking Trust is not nearly as convoluted a process.

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