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Show Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume II: A Kantian Conception xix attention and energy thereby lost to other endeavors more conducive to professional flourishing. As for its worth, the only reasons to read Rationality and the Structure of the Self (in private, of course, or else concealed in a plain brown paper bag) are stubborn curiosity about that very question: Was it, in fact, really worth it? - plus whatever historical worth its curiouser and curiouser history has inadvertently conferred. I am glad it has caught the attention of the curious, and I value their curiosity. I hope your curiosity will be slaked by what you find in the following pages; that they will answer that question, both to your satisfaction and to mine; and that the answer you find there will have been worth the trouble of seeking it out. Adrian M. S. Piper Berlin, 24 January 2013 It is much more honorable and much easier not to suppress others, but to make yourselves as good as you can.7 Plato, Apology XXX, in Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Trans. F. J. Church and Robert D. Cumming (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1956) 7 © Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation Berlin |
