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| [a] Toady's Man DZ |
Is Kermit...the Frog.
It's more complicated than that, of course. "Bathed in testosterone, he runs to therapists." At least so says this weekend's Die Zeit "cover story." And..."When is a man still a man? Our special edition gives the answer."
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| [b] Volition RF |
That answer is forty pages long.
It is quite fortuitous that this topic came up on the pages of Die Zeit today, because our discussion group at the Internationales Kolleg für Gesteswissenschatliche Forschung (IKGF) spent two hours this morning discussing Harry Frankfurt's seminal 1971 article "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of the Person." There, Frankfurt makes the famous claim that one of the essential (this is the word he used) characteristics of the human is to have "second order desires." We won't go into the details here, but he was pretty clear that amphibians and reptiles wouldn't be included.
Except Kermit...the Post-Gender, second-order desirous and volitional, Man-Frog.
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| [c] Yesteryear's Man RF |
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