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Paul Weiss’s Metaphysics of Human Experience: A Review Discussion

A metaphysics that never quits a high level of abstraction is as irrelevant and arbitrary as one that, for a specific domain, is merely an assemblage of trivial generalizations and wooden applications of its categoreal scheme. Paul Weiss's You, I and the Others is a challenge to contemporary philosophers precisely because it successfully runs these metaphysical risk~. The result is an account of human existence of uncommon density and scope, providing a formidable argument for the integrity and status of human individuals and social realities under certain ultimate conditions.1 The method Weiss employs in You, I and the Others is simply brilliant. In successive chapters Weiss analyzes the use of the personal pronouns ' you ', ' me ', ' I ', ' we ', and ' they ' and ' others ' to establish that each human existence is a highly complex, yet privately unified actuality expressing itself in a public domain. Consciousness is not deified as something inscrutable though Weiss recognizes that 'I' and 'me' have unique referents maximally intelligible to their sustaining self alone. Unpacking these terms requires more of the philosopher than phenomenological inspection and simple analysis of the neutral medium of language. The exclusive pursuit of these methods amounts to either a disguised idealism, collapsing the individual into a social Geist, or a thinlyveiled naturalism plying its trade as behaviorism or social Darwinism until neurology comes of age. What is required beyond these contemporary philosophical methods is a statement of content, a description of language's users and referents, of human actualities interacting with ultimate conditions, such as only a speculative and realistic metaphysics can supply. Only by making a metaphysical turn, if Weiss is right, can philosophy retain its integrity and be of genuine service to other disciplines. Indeed, You, I and the Others offers exciting possibilities for a vast and fruitful reconstitution of theoretical and practical disciplines from political economy and jurisprudence to psychology and social sciences. But the importance of Weiss's work for philosophers is its demonstration that the real end of