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Author : Soyam Lokendrajit Singh
Publisher : Mittal Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Problem of Freedom and Necessity in Human Action written by Soyam Lokendrajit Singh and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1987 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christophe Bouton
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810168138
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Time and Freedom written by Christophe Bouton and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christophe Bouton’s Time and Freedom addresses the problem of the relationship between time and freedom as a matter of practical philosophy, examining how the individual lives time and how her freedom is effective in time. Bouton first charts the history of modern philosophy’s reengagement with the Aristotelian debate about future contingents, beginning with Leibniz. While Kant, Husserl, and their followers would engage time through theories of knowledge, Schopenhauer, Schelling, Kierkegaard, and (later), Heidegger, Sartre, and Levinas applied a phenomenological and existential methodology to time, but faced a problem of the temporality of human freedom. Bouton’s is the first major work of its kind since Bergson’s Time and Free Will (1889), and Bouton’s “mystery of the future,” in which the individual has freedom within the shifting bounds dictated by time, charts a new direction.
Author : Bernard Berofsky
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351785346
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Freedom from Necessity written by Bernard Berofsky and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1987, is about the classic free will problem, construed in terms of the implications of moral responsibility. The principal thesis is that the core issue is metaphysical: can scientific laws postulate objectively necessary connections between an action and its causal antecedents? The author concludes they cannot, and that, therefore, free will and determinism can be reconciled.
Author : Matthew J. Kisner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139500090
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Spinoza on Human Freedom written by Matthew J. Kisner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spinoza was one of the most influential figures of the Enlightenment, but his often obscure metaphysics makes it difficult to understand the ultimate message of his philosophy. Although he regarded freedom as the fundamental goal of his ethics and politics, his theory of freedom has not received sustained, comprehensive treatment. Spinoza holds that we attain freedom by governing ourselves according to practical principles, which express many of our deepest moral commitments. Matthew J. Kisner focuses on this theory and presents an alternative picture of the ethical project driving Spinoza's philosophical system. His study of the neglected practical philosophy provides an accessible and concrete picture of what it means to live as Spinoza's ethics envisioned.
Author : Alfred Jules Ayer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Philosophical Essays written by Alfred Jules Ayer and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Desmond Bernal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Freedom of Necessity written by John Desmond Bernal and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Pink
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192853589
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Free Will: A Very Short Introduction written by Thomas Pink and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-24 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of free choices - but are these choices really free? Or are we compelled to act the way we do by factors beyond our control? This book looks at free will.
Author : George Herbert Palmer
Publisher : Boston, Mifflin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Problem of Freedom written by George Herbert Palmer and published by Boston, Mifflin. This book was released on 1911 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415327275
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Free Will: Concepts and challenges written by John Martin Fischer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James A. Harris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191533327
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Of Liberty and Necessity written by James A. Harris and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Of Liberty and Necessity James A. Harris presents the first comprehensive account of the free will problem in eighteenth-century British philosophy. Harris proposes new interpretations of the positions of familiar figures such as Locke, Hume, Edwards, and Reid. He also gives careful attention to writers such as William King, Samuel Clarke, Anthony Collins, Lord Kames, James Beattie, David Hartley, Joseph Priestley, and Dugald Stewart, who, while well-known in the eighteenth century, have since been largely ignored by historians of philosophy. Through detailed textual analysis, and by making precise use of a variety of different contexts, Harris elucidates the contribution that each of these writers makes to the eighteenth-century discussion of the will and its freedom. In this period, the question of the nature of human freedom is posed principally in terms of the influence of motives upon the will. On one side of the debate are those who believe that we are free in our choices. A motive, these philosophers believe, constitutes a reason to act in a particular way, but it is up to us which motive we act upon. On the other side of the debate are those who believe that, on the contrary, there is no such thing as freedom of choice. According to these philosophers, one motive is always intrinsically stronger than the rest and so is the one that must determine choice. Several important issues are raised as this disagreement is explored and developed, including the nature of motives, the value of 'indifference' to the will's freedom, the distinction between 'moral' and 'physical' necessity, the relation between the will and the understanding, and the internal coherence of the concept of freedom of will. One of Harris's primary objectives is to place this debate in the context of the eighteenth-century concern with replicating in the mental sphere what Newton had achieved in the philosophy of nature. All of the philosophers discussed in Of Liberty and Necessity conceive of themselves as 'experimental' reasoners, and, when examining the will, focus primarily upon what experience reveals about the influence of motives upon choice. The nature and significance of introspection is therefore at the very centre of the free will problem in this period, as is the question of what can legitimately be inferred from observable regularities in human behaviour.
Author : J.J. O'Rourke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401021201
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Problem of Freedom in Marxist Thought written by J.J. O'Rourke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study seeks to present the theory of freedom as found in one line of the Marxist tradition, that which begins with Marx and Engels and continues through Lenin to contemporary Soviet philosophy. Although the primary goal is simply to describe how freedom is con ceived by the thinkers of this tradition, an attempt is also made to ascertain whether or not their views are strongly deterministic, as has often been presumed by Western commentators. is in order regarding the scope of the term 'contemporary A remark Soviet philosophy'. The Soviet stage in Marxist philosophy stretche. s back to the 1917 revolution. However, for the purposes of this study only works published after 1947 were examined, and the vast majority of them date from the 1960's. Apart from the fact that most works of previous periods were not available, bibliographical indications, such as the titles of the articles in Pod znamenem marksizma, did not suggest that the theory of freedom was then a major concern. In fact, even 1947 there was little development of this theme until the upsurge after of works in philosophical anthropology during the last decade. On the other hand, it is not being suggested that the conception of freedom found in recent writings is representative of earlier Soviet philosophy, during the Stalinist 'dead' period or earlier. Only further research could establish that. This work was presented as a doctoral dissertation at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, under the direction of Professor J. M.
Author : Thomas M. Osborne Jr.
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813221781
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham written by Thomas M. Osborne Jr. and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out a thematic presentation of human action, especially as it relates to morality, in the three most significant figures in Medieval Scholastic thought: Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415923903
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Spinoza written by Roger Scruton and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ostracized by the Jewish community in Amsterdam into which he was born, Spinoza developed a political philosophy that set out to justify the secular State, ruled by a liberal constitution, and a metaphysics, according to which everything exists in God as a 'mode' of the divine substance, that sought to reconcile human freedom with a belief in scientific explanation. In this book Roger Scruton presents a clear and systematic analysis of Spinoza's thought, and shows its relevance to today's intellectual preoccupations.
Author : Cathal Doherty
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004342443
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Maurice Blondel on the Supernatural in Human Action written by Cathal Doherty and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Maurice Blondel on the Supernatural in Human Action: Sacrament and Superstition, Cathal Doherty SJ reverses the Enlightenment accusation of superstition against sacraments and argues that sacramental theology too falls into superstition when it ignores divine agency as real.
Author : Bernard Williams
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520934938
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Shame and Necessity, Second Edition written by Bernard Williams and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousness. Bernard Williams's original and radical book questions this picture of Western history. While we are in many ways different from the Greeks, Williams claims that the differences are not to be traced to a shift in these basic conceptions of ethical life. We are more like the ancients than we are prepared to acknowledge, and only when this is understood can we properly grasp our most important differences from them, such as our rejection of slavery. The author is a philosopher, but much of his book is directed to writers such as Homer and the tragedians, whom he discusses as poets and not just as materials for philosophy. At the center of his study is the question of how we can understand Greek tragedy at all, when its world is so far from ours. Williams explains how it is that when the ancients speak, they do not merely tell us about themselves, but about ourselves. In a new foreword A.A. Long explores the impact of this volume in the context of Williams's stunning career.
Author : P.F. Strawson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134060866
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Freedom and Resentment and Other Essays written by P.F. Strawson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-08-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished philosophers. First published thirty years ago but long since unavailable, Freedom and Resentment collects some of Strawson's most important work and is an ideal introduction to his thinking on such topics as the philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology and aesthetics. Beginning with the title essay Freedom and Resentment, this invaluable collection is testament to the astonishing range of Strawson's thought as he discusses free will, ethics and morality, logic, the mind-body problem and aesthetics. The book is perhaps best-known for its three interrelated chapters on perception and the imagination, subjects now at the very forefront of philosophical research. This reissue includes a substantial new foreword by Paul Snowdon and a fascinating intellectual autobiography by Strawson.
Author : Thomas Nagel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195056440
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (564 download)
Download or read book The View From Nowhere written by Thomas Nagel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1989-02-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way, but at the same time each of us is a particular person in a particular place, each with his own "personal" view of the world. Thomas Nagel's ambitious and lively book tackles this fundamental issue, arguing that our divided nature is the root of a whole range of philosophical problems, touching every aspect of human life. He deals with its manifestations in such fields of philosophy as the mind-body problem, personal identity, knowledge and skepticism, thought and reality, free will, ethics, the relation between moral and other values, the meaning of life, and death.
