Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191519960
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Ranging over central issues of morals and politics, this book discusses the nature of freedom and authority.
Ranging over central issues of morals and politics, this book discusses the nature of freedom and authority.
... morality was undistinguished from religion and politics from morals ; and in religion , morality , and politics ... Freedom , " National Review ( September 25 , 1962 ) : 232 . 3. John Edward Emerich Dalberg - Acton , Essays on Freedom ...
The final volume, Moral Freedom, deals with one of the oldest puzzles in both philosophy and theology: the individual's freedom of the will.Freedom of the will is a necessary precondition of morality.
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