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Freedom from Reality
Author | : D. C. Schindler |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-08-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0268102627 |
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Presents a critique of the deceptive and ultimately self-subverting character of the modern notion of freedom, retrieving an alternative view through a new interpretation of the ancient tradition.
Freedom from Reality
Author | : D. C. Schindler |
Publsiher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2017-12-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780268102647 |
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It is commonly observed that behind many of the political and cultural issues that we face today there are impoverished conceptions of freedom, which, according to D. C. Schindler, we have inherited from the classical liberal tradition without a sufficient awareness of its implications. Freedom from Reality presents a critique of the deceptive and ultimately self-subverting character of the modern notion of freedom, retrieving an alternative view through a new interpretation of the ancient tradition. While many have critiqued the inadequacy of identifying freedom with arbitrary choice, this book seeks to penetrate to the metaphysical roots of the modern conception by going back, through an etymological study, to the original sense of freedom. Schindler begins by uncovering a contradiction in John Locke’s seminal account of human freedom. Rather than dismissing it as a mere “academic” problem, Schindler takes this contradiction as a key to understanding the strange paradoxes that abound in the contemporary values and institutions founded on the modern notion of liberty: the very mechanisms that intend to protect modern freedom render it empty and ineffectual. In this respect, modern liberty is “diabolical”—a word that means, at its roots, that which “drives apart” and so subverts. This is contrasted with the “symbolical” (a “joining-together”), which, he suggests, most basically characterizes the premodern sense of reality. This book will appeal to students and scholars of political philosophy (especially political theorists), philosophers in the continental or historical traditions, and cultural critics with a philosophical bent.
Freedom and Reality
Author | : John Enoch Powell |
Publsiher | : Arlington House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : UCAL:B3276918 |
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Hegel s Philosophy of Reality Freedom and God
Author | : Robert M. Wallace |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 878 |
Release | : 2005-04-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0521844843 |
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Showing the relevance of Hegel's arguments, this book discusses both original texts and their interpretations.
An Introduction to Indian Philosophy
Author | : Bina Gupta |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2012-04-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781136653094 |
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An Introduction to Indian Philosophy offers a profound yet accessible survey of the development of India’s philosophical tradition. Beginning with the formation of Brahmanical, Jaina, Materialist, and Buddhist traditions, Bina Gupta guides the reader through the classical schools of Indian thought, culminating in a look at how these traditions inform Indian philosophy and society in modern times. Offering translations from source texts and clear explanations of philosophical terms, this text provides a rigorous overview of Indian philosophical contributions to epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and ethics. This is a must-read for anyone seeking a reliable and illuminating introduction to Indian philosophy.
The Non reality of Free Will
Author | : Richard Double |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Free will and determinism |
ISBN | : 9780195064971 |
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The traditional disputants in the free will discussion--the libertarian, soft determinist, and hard determinist--agree that free will is a coherent concept, while disagreeing on how the concept might be satisfied and whether it can, in fact, be satisfied. In this innovative analysis, Richard Double offers a bold new argument, rejecting all of the traditional theories and proposing that the concept of free will cannot be satisfied, no matter what the nature of reality. Arguing that there is unavoidable conflict within our understanding of moral responsibility and free choice, Double seeks to prove that when we ascribe responsibility, blame, or freedom, we merely express attitudes, rather than state anything capable of truth or falsity. Free will, he concludes, is essentially an incoherent notion.
Playing and Reality
Author | : Donald Woods Winnicott |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0415036895 |
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Winnicott is concerned with the springs of imaginative living and of cultural experience in every sense, with whatever determines an individual's capacity to live creatively and to find life worth living.