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Human Freedom, and a Plea for Philosophy, 2 Essays. Orig. Publ. in the Amer. Review. Republ
Author: John Williamson Nevin
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781021304773
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this thought-provoking work, philosopher John Williamson Nevin delves into the nature of human freedom and the role that philosophy plays in shaping our understanding of it. With engaging and accessible writing, Nevin makes a compelling argument for the importance of philosophical inquiry in our lives. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Human Freedom, and a Plea for Philosophy, 2 Essays. Orig. Publ. in the Amer. Review. Republ
Author: John Williamson Nevin
Publisher: Nabu Press
Published: 2013-11-14
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9781295323708
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Human Freedom ; And, a Plea for Philosophy
Author: John Williamson Nevin
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Published: 2019-08-19
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780461273762
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Human Freedom ; & a Plea for Philosophy
Freedom of the Individual
Author: Stuart Hampshire
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-03-08
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 1400868521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Stuart Hampshire's essay on human freedom offers an important analysis of concepts surrounding the central idea of intentional action. The author contrasts the powers of animals and of inanimate things; examines the relation between power and action; and distinguishes between two kinds of self-knowledge. Explaining human freedom by means of this distinction, he focuses his attention on self-knowledge gained by introspection. He writes: "...an individual who acquires more systematic knowledge of the causes of states of mind, emotion, and desires, insofar as these are not the outcome of his decision, thereby becomes more free than he previously was to control and direct his own life:...there will in general be a closer correlation between that which he sets himself to do and that which he actually achieves in his life." In a postscript on determinism and psychological explanation, the author provides a detailed account of some of the ways in which explanation of states of mind differs from explanation of physical states. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The concepts of human freedom and radical questioning in the works of Plato, René Descartes, and Albert Camus
Author: Ulrich Roschitsch
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2016-06-13
Total Pages: 14
ISBN-13: 3668240280
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Philosophy - General Essays, Eras, grade: 1,3, , course: Introduction to western Philosophy, language: English, abstract: The human freedom and the human capability to reflect about the circumstances of our existence are phenomenons that have puzzled philosophers, anthropologists and other scientists alike, since we can think. Over the course of history, especially the art of philosophy has seen many great thinkers reflecting on the nature of human freedom: Three of them – Plato, René Descartes, and Albert Camus – are the material on which this paper will retrace the development of the interpretation of human freedom. In doing so, it is very important to, first of all, define how Plato, Descartes, and Camus saw human freedom. After that, we can have a look at the key differences that are – or maybe are not – findable when comparing Plato's “Republic” and Descartes’ “Meditations on First Philosophy”, as well as when comparing Descartes' work and Camus' “The Myth of Sisyphus”. The goal of this analysis is to examine how the conception of human freedom changed from Plato over Descartes to Camus. This is crucial to completing the third and last part of this paper. That will be determining which thinker was most thoroughly committed to the radical questioning of things, that we nowadays hold to be the core value of philosophy. However, the goal of this paper is not to determine, who was the “best” philosopher, but rather to show how different their conceptions of human freedom and the human capacity to ask questions truly were.
Freedom of Mind and Other Essays
Author: Stuart Hampshire
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-03-08
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1400869366
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Each of the fourteen essays in this volume is directed to some aspect of these two questions: What are the peculiarities of the concepts that we use to describe and to criticize the mental states and performances of human beings? What are the peculiarities of the knowledge that we may possess of our own mental states and attitudes and of the mental states and attitudes of others? Each of us is both a scientific student of others' beliefs, desires, and attitudes and the responsible author of his own beliefs and attitudes. The center of the freedom-of-mind problem, Professor Hampshire asserts, is the confusion that arises when we try to reconcile the explanations that we would give of the same mental state or process from the two different points of view. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Essays on Freedom of Action (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Ted Honderich
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-06-03
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1317516133
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Essays on Freedom of Action, first published in 1973, brings together original papers by contemporary British and American philosophers on questions which have long concerned philosophers and others: the question of whether persons are wholly a part of the natural world and their actions the necessary effects of causal processes, and the question of whether our actions are free, and such that we can be held responsible for them, even if they are the necessary effects of casual processes. This volume will be of interest not only to those who are primarily concerned with philosophy but also to students in those many other disciplines in which freedom and determinism arise as problems.
Human Freedom and Social Order
Author: John Wild
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Published for the Lilly Endowment Research Program in Christianity and Politics by the Duke University Press
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13:
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