Demonstrates that Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit points the way to a new, post-modern form of normativity, and so self-consciousness. The lecture shows that its practical aspect is a magnanimous form of agency exercised by self-conscious individuals, who thereby create a new kind of recognitive community structured by rationalising recollection in the form of confession, forgiveness, and trust.
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Demonstrates that Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit points the way to a new, post-modern form of normativity, and so self-consciousness. The lecture shows that its practical aspect is a magnanimous form of agency exercised by self-conscious individuals, who thereby create a new kind of recognitive community structured by rationalising recollection in the form of confession, forgiveness, and trust.
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Beginning in 1937, the Philosophy Department of Marquette University has presented an annual Aquinas Lecture in which a distinguished philosopher is invited to deliver a lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas. Many famous thinkers have appeared on the series over the years such as Etienne Gilson, Jacques Maritain, Emil Fackenheim, Paul Ricoeur, Paul Weiss, and Nicholas Rescher. Each annual lecture has been published and made available in a uniform series of beautifully formatted books from Marquette University Press. I grew up in Milwaukee, majored in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee, and attended an Aquinas Lecture as an undergraduate. These lectures bring to mind my youth and interest in philosophy together with a longstanding feature of intellectual life in my home town.
On February 24, 2019, Robert Brandom, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of the Center for the Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, delivered the annual Aquinas Lecture, which was subsequently published in this book, "Heroism and Magnanimity: the Post-Modern Form of Self-Conscious Agency". The lecture was adapted from Brandom's then about to be published book, "A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology" (2019) which offers what Brandom describes as a "pragmatist semantic" reading of Hegel's great work, "The Phenomenology of Spirit [Geist]". "A Spirit of Trust" has been widely read and acclaimed among philosophers. The book is lengthy and difficult as befits its subject. The book illustrates how questions of metaphysics and the history of philosophy, including the study of the once-rejected Hegel, have again become important in philosophical thinking.
Brandom's Aquinas Lecture is also highly difficult and seems to me long for a lecture of one hour. Those fortunate to hear the lecture in person were undoubtedly moved but also puzzled. As is the longer book, the focus of the lecture is on Hegel. Brandom obviously is fascinated by Hegel and describes him as "the first to see modernity whole, the first to see those new Enlightenment modes of understanding as of a piece with the massive rolling changes in social, political, and economic institutions that gave rise to them and to which they gave voice, the first to see the Enlightenment as the form of consciousness and self-consciousness appropriate to a new world and a new way of being in the world."
Brandom discusses broadly who Hegel understood what he termed "Geist" in changing understanding of normativity and of intentional agency. Normativity was initially viewed as a part of nature. Human beings endeavored to conform their conduct and thought to objective standards. With Enlightenment, normativity came to be viewed as a human, social product, leaving open the questions of how norms were viewed as binding and leading to a sense of alienation between persons and their norms. Hegel's project is to combine these two views of normativity and agency into a third, the view of modernity, which includes the best features of both. The explanation of modernity, norms, and intentionality is the burden of Brandom's Aquinas Lecture.
The Lecture is highly allusive. It draws most heavily, of course, on Hegel. The discussion of agency, however, draws extensive parallels with the work of the 20th century American philosopher, Donald Davidson. Kant receives attention in the lecture as does Thomas Aquinas. In the latter sections of his lecture, Brandom discusses changing understandings of agency and responsibility through an exposition of two allegories developed by Hegel. The first is a consideration of the saying that "no man is a hero to his valet." The second is a story of a hard-hearted judge who comes to understand and pass judgment on a prisoner before him in the dock. Brandom develops a communal concept of normativity based upon trust and an understanding of forgiveness when in history and in the present members of the community fall short in reaching their communally adopted ideals.
While this lecture is obscure, as befitting a consideration of Hegel, it is also wonderfully thoughtful and provocative. With all its technicalities, the lecture has broad things to say about the nature of reality, about the individual human action, and about political, communal life in our fractured, difficult time. Brandom concludes his lecture as follows.
"The temporally extended, historically structured recognitive community of those who are alike in all confessing the extent of their failure to be norm-governed, acknowledging their responsibility to forgive those failures in others, confessing the extent of their efforts at recollective and reparative forgiveness, and trusting that a way will be found to forgive their failures, is one in which each member identifies with all the others, taking co-responsibility for their practical attitudes. It is the 'I' that is 'we'; the 'we' that is 'I'. [PG 177]"
Brandom's Aquinas Lecture reminded me of my much deferred project to read his "A Spirit of Trust." The Lecture is worth reading and struggling with in its own right. I was moved to think of the Aquinas Lectures again and of my old beloved city of Milwaukee and of an example of its life of mind and spirit.
