Author: Soyam Lokendrajit Singh
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN:
Category : Fate and fatalism
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Problem of Freedom and Necessity in Human Action
Author: Soyam Lokendrajit Singh
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN:
Category : Fate and fatalism
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN:
Category : Fate and fatalism
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Time and Freedom
Author: Christophe Bouton
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810130157
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810130157
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
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.
Spinoza on Human Freedom
Author: Matthew J. Kisner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139500090
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139500090
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
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.
Philosophical Essays
Author: Alfred J. Ayer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Freedom from Necessity
Author: Bernard Berofsky
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351785346
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351785346
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
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.
Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham
Author: Thomas Michael Osborne
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813221781
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
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
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813221781
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
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
Spinoza
Author: Roger Scruton
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415923903
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415923903
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
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.
The Freedom of Necessity
Author: John Desmond Bernal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Problem of Freedom
Author: George Herbert Palmer
Publisher: Boston, Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: Boston, Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Free Will: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Thomas Pink
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192853589
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192853589
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
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.