Gray's skepticism about the value of humanity and its hopes for progress deserves more attention.
In an accompanying essay, he asserted that "the history of modern China is a history of negation, a denial of the value of humanity, a murder of individuality.
Want to watch a witless, never-ending parade of abject dance acts, hopeless comedy sketches and musical performances that'll make you question the value of humanity?
Two ballads, "Love and Hard Times" and "Questions for the Angels," ponder divine visitation and the value of humanity, setting the beat aside for melodies that amble like spontaneous musings.
I get it better than you do," whether it's the secret of life (on the new album), the skin-deep imperialism of pop culture (on its 90's albums), the value of humanity over violent patriotism (on its early 80's albums) or the hubris of four Irishmen coming up with one of pop's greatest tributes to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (on "The Unforgettable Fire" in 1984).
Korsgaard's argument for the value of humanity is the target of more specific criticisms.
While Kantian constitutivism faces objections peculiar to it because of its appeal to the value of humanity, other objections apply to all sorts of constitutivism.
Indeed, Cummiskey argues that they must be: respect for the value of Humanity entails treating the interests of each as counting for one and one only, and hence for always acting to produce the best overall outcome.
Such a person would have reasons for torturing people, which is just to say that the value of humanity is not a constitutive norm of reasoning (Street 2010, 371).
