'Gray sees volition, and hence morality, as an illusion, and portrays humanity as a ravenous species engaged in wiping out other forms of life. Gray has written that "humans ... cannot destroy the Earth, but they can easily wreck the environment that sustains them."'https://twitter.com/misen__/status/994129373908406272 …
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Replying to @misen__
the quote of Gray is his own, and the rest is from wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gray_(philosopher) …
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Replying to @LapisAlienus
Well in that case I agree with whoever wrote that summary on the wiki page, and I also agree with Gray. I don’t think that is at all dependent on, or resultant of an ‘anti-communist’ stance.
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Replying to @LapisAlienus
Fair enough. If you have the energy and inclination, I’d be happy to hear what leads you to that conclusion.
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Replying to @misen__
It's a question of agency. If we follow Gray and there is no volition, then there is no agency. If there's no agency, there's no responsibility and no taking of responsibility. If there's no taking of responsibility there's no communism. Another thing is Gray's right politics.
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Replying to @LapisAlienus
There being no agency and therefore being no taking of responsibility is logically incoherent. People can being 100% convinced of taking responsibility without having the free agency to do so. Then there is the question of taking-responsibility leading to +ve outcomes. Does it?
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from a philosophical view agency and responsibility are very tightly connected. I challenge you to name a single professional philosopher who claims personal responsibility in the absence of agency. What do you mean by positive outcomes? Responsibility is not a choice.
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I think you're misunderstanding me. I didn't say people actually had personal responsibility in the absence of agency, rather; non-agency does not preclude the illusion of taking responsibility. As for +ve outcomes, roughly: how does agency prevent death by capitalism?
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