LIFE WITHOUT ESSENCE: MAN AS A FORCE-OF-NATURE1

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The essay's task is to understand whether we -you, our trio and the rest of us -are an integrated part of Nature, a force of Nature, in the way we take hurricanes, flowers and dogs to be each fully a Nature-product.It is a commonplace in epistemology, metaphysics, action theory and ethics to assert (but more often, presuppose) that we are not just another Natureproduct.We are absolutely "special," an exception, one of a kind.If this much is not asserted directly, the matter is put forward in the form of a paralyzing disjunction, a painful dilemma:The Man-in-Nature Dilemma: Either one is a Nature-uniformist but then a human-reductionist or if one is to escape human reductionism, one must make us a Nature-transcendent agency.

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