Freedom And Reason
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Freedom Within Reason
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Author : Susan Wolf
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1993-10-21
Freedom Within Reason written by Susan Wolf and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-10-21 with Philosophy categories.
Philosophers typically see the issue of free will and determinism in terms of a debate between two standard positions. Incompatibilism holds that freedom and responsibility require causal and metaphysical independence from the impersonal forces of nature. According to compatibilism, people are free and responsible as long as their actions are governed by their desires. In Freedom Within Reason, Susan Wolf charts a path between these traditional positions: We are not free and responsible, she argues, for actions that are governed by desires that we cannot help having. But the wish to form our own desires from nothing is both futile and arbitrary. Some of the forces beyond our control are friends to freedom rather than enemies of it: they endow us with faculties of reason, perception, and imagination, and provide us with the data by which we come to see and appreciate the world for what it is. The independence we want, Wolf argues, is not independence from the world, but independence from forces that prevent or preclude us from choosing how to live in light of a sufficient appreciation of the world. The freedom we want is a freedom within reason and the world.
Freedom And Reason In Kant Schelling And Kierkegaard
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Author : Michelle Kosch
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2006-05-25
Freedom And Reason In Kant Schelling And Kierkegaard written by Michelle Kosch and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-25 with Philosophy categories.
Michelle Kosch examines the conceptions of free will and the foundations of ethics in the work of Kant, Schelling, and Kierkegaard. She seeks to understand the history of German idealism better by looking at it through the lens of these issues, and to understand Kierkegaard better by placing his thought in this context. Kosch argues for a new interpretation of Kierkegaard's theory of agency, that Schelling was a major influence and Kant a major target of criticism, and that both the theory and the criticisms are highly relevant to contemporary debates.
Freedom And Reason
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Author : R. M. Hare
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 1965-06-17
Freedom And Reason written by R. M. Hare and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965-06-17 with Philosophy categories.
Proceeds in a logical fashion to show how, when thinking morally, a man can be both free and rational.
Freedom And Responsibility
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Author : Hilary Bok
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-08
Freedom And Responsibility written by Hilary Bok and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-08 with Philosophy categories.
Can we reconcile the idea that we are free and responsible agents with the idea that what we do is determined according to natural laws? For centuries, philosophers have tried in different ways to show that we can. Hilary Bok takes a fresh approach here, as she seeks to show that the two ideas are compatible by drawing on the distinction between practical and theoretical reasoning. Bok argues that when we engage in practical reasoning--the kind that involves asking "what should I do?" and sifting through alternatives to find the most justifiable course of action--we have reason to hold ourselves responsible for what we do. But when we engage in theoretical reasoning--searching for causal explanations of events--we have no reason to apply concepts like freedom and responsibility. Bok contends that libertarians' arguments against "compatibilist" justifications of moral responsibility fail because they describe human actions only from the standpoint of theoretical reasoning. To establish this claim, she examines which conceptions of freedom of the will and moral responsibility are relevant to practical reasoning and shows that these conceptions are not vulnerable to many objections that libertarians have directed against compatibilists. Bok concludes that the truth or falsity of the claim that we are free and responsible agents in the sense those conceptions spell out is ultimately independent of deterministic accounts of the causes of human actions. Clearly written and powerfully argued, Freedom and Responsibility is a major addition to current debate about some of philosophy's oldest and deepest questions.
Kant S Conception Of Freedom
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Author : Henry E. Allison
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-16
Kant S Conception Of Freedom written by Henry E. Allison and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-16 with History categories.
Traces the development of Kant's views on free will from earlier writings through the three Critiques and beyond.
Freedom And Reason
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Author : R. M. Hare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Freedom And Reason written by R. M. Hare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with categories.
Rationality And Freedom
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Author : Amartya Sen
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2002
Rationality And Freedom written by Amartya Sen and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Business & Economics categories.
Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In this, the first of two volumes, Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight to these difficult issues.
The Virtues Of Freedom
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Author : Paul Guyer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
The Virtues Of Freedom written by Paul Guyer and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Philosophy categories.
This volume of essays by one of the world's foremost Kant scholars explores the efforts of the great Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) to construct a moral philosophy based on the premise that the most fundamental value for human beings is their freedom to set their own ends.
Freedom And Anthropology In Kant S Moral Philosophy
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Author : Patrick R. Frierson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-07-21
Freedom And Anthropology In Kant S Moral Philosophy written by Patrick R. Frierson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-21 with Philosophy categories.
This book offers a comprehensive account of Kant's theory of freedom and his moral anthropology. The point of departure is the apparent conflict between three claims to which Kant is committed: that human beings are transcendentally free, that moral anthropology studies the empirical influences on human beings, and that more anthropology is morally relevant. Frierson shows why this conflict is only apparent. He draws on Kant's transcendental idealism and his theory of the will and describes how empirical influences can affect the empirical expression of one's will in a way that is morally significant but still consistent with Kant's concept of freedom. As a work which integrates Kant's anthropology with his philosophy as a whole, this book will be an unusually important source of study for all Kant scholars and advanced students of Kant.
Freedom And Reason
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Author : R. M. Hare
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Release Date : 1963
Freedom And Reason written by R. M. Hare and has been published by Oxford Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Philosophy categories.
Proceeds in a logical fashion to show how, when thinking morally, a man can be both free and rational.