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Of Liberty and Necessity
Author | : James A. Harris |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2005-05-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780191533327 |
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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.
Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity
Author | : Thomas Hobbes,John Bramhall |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1999-03-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0521596688 |
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This volume presents the famous seventeenth-century debate on freedom between Thomas Hobbes and John Bramhall.
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Author | : David Hume |
Publsiher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2019-04-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9788027303892 |
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"An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" is a book by David Hume created as a revision of an earlier work, Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature". The argument of the Enquiry proceeds by a series of incremental steps, separated into chapters which logically succeed one another. After expounding his epistemology, Hume explains how to apply his principles to specific topics. This book has proven highly influential, both in the years that would immediately follow and today. Immanuel Kant points to it as the book which woke him from his self-described "dogmatic slumber."
On Liberty
Author | : John Stuart Mill |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Liberty |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044024786071 |
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The Logic of the Moral Sciences
Author | : John Stuart Mill |
Publsiher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2020-05-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780486847030 |
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A founding document in the area of study now known as the social sciences, this treatise examines the rational, philosophical basis for the study of human behavior, society, and history.
Freedom and Necessity
Author | : Joan Robinson |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2016-11-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781315439020 |
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Originally published in 1970, this book examines the origins of social organizations, the development of Robinson Crusoe economies and the conception of property or rightful ownership, as well as the origins of agriculture, race and class. Discussing commerce and the nation state, capitalist expansion and war between industrial power, the book is a concise yet comprehensive survey of the evolution of the structures of the world’s economies and of the ideas which underlie them.
The Empire of Necessity
Author | : Greg Grandin |
Publsiher | : Metropolitan Books |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781429943178 |
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From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America's struggle with slavery and freedom during the Age of Revolution and beyond One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans he thought were slaves. They weren't. Having earlier seized control of the vessel and slaughtered most of the crew, they were staging an elaborate ruse, acting as if they were humble servants. When Delano, an idealistic, anti-slavery republican, finally realized the deception, he responded with explosive violence. Drawing on research on four continents, The Empire of Necessity explores the multiple forces that culminated in this extraordinary event—an event that already inspired Herman Melville's masterpiece Benito Cereno. Now historian Greg Grandin, with the gripping storytelling that was praised in Fordlandia, uses the dramatic happenings of that day to map a new transnational history of slavery in the Americas, capturing the clash of peoples, economies, and faiths that was the New World in the early 1800s.
Essays Philosophical Historical and Literary
Author | : William Belsham |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1789 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : BL:A0019482069 |
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