Freedom And Nature

Author : Paul Ricoeur
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0810105349

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Freedom and Nature by Paul Ricoeur Pdf

This volume, the first part of Paul Ricoeur's Philosophy of the Will, is an eidetics, carried out within carefully imposed phenomenological brackets. It seeks to deal with the essential structure of man's being in the world, and so it suspends the distorting dimensions of existence, the bondage of passion, and the vision of innocence, to which Ricoeur returns in his later writings. The result is a conception of man as an incarnate Cogito, which can make the polar unity of subject and object intelligible and provide a basic continuity for the various aspects of inquiry into man's being-in-the-world.

Author : Scott Davidson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498578899

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A Companion to Ricoeur's Freedom and Nature by Scott Davidson Pdf

Paul Ricoeur’s first book, Freedom and Nature, introduces many themes that resurface in various ways throughout his later work, but its significance has been mostly overlooked in the field of Ricoeur studies. Gathering together an international group of scholars, A Companion to Freedom and Nature is the first book-length study to focus exclusively on Freedom and Nature. It helps readers to understand this complex work by providing careful textual analysis of specific arguments in the book and by situating them in relation to Ricoeur’s early influences, including Merleau-Ponty, Nabert, and Ravaisson. But most importantly, this book demonstrates that Freedom and Nature remains a compelling and vital resource for readers today, precisely because it resonates with recent developments in the areas of embodied cognition, philosophical psychology, and philosophy of the will. Freedom and Nature is fundamentally a book about embodiment, and it situates the human body at the crossroads of activity and passivity, motivation and causation, the voluntary and the involuntary. This conception of the body informs Ricoeur’s unique treatment of topics such as effort, habit, and attention that are of much interest to scholars today. Together the chapters of this book provide a renewed appreciation of this important and innovative work.

Author : C. Graham Cooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : God (Christianity)
ISBN : 0989626253

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The Nature of Freedom by C. Graham Cooke Pdf

Author : Adrian Bejan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030340094

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Freedom and Evolution by Adrian Bejan Pdf

The book begins with familiar designs found all around and inside us (such as the ‘trees’ of river basins, human lungs, blood and city traffic). It then shows how all flow systems are driven by power from natural engines everywhere, and how they are endlessly shaped because of freedom. Finally, Professor Bejan explains how people, like everything else that moves on earth, are driven by power derived from our “engines” that consume fuel and food, and that our movement dissipates the power completely and changes constantly for greater access, economies of scale, efficiency, innovation and life. Written for wide audiences of all ages, including readers interested in science, patterns in nature, similarity and non-uniformity, history and the future, and those just interested in having fun with ideas, the book shows how many “design change” concepts acquire a solid scientific footing and how they exist with the evolution of nature, society, technology and science.

Author : Devin Zane Shaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441193698

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Freedom and Nature in Schelling's Philosophy of Art by Devin Zane Shaw Pdf

Schelling is often thought to be a protean thinker whose work is difficult to approach or interpret. Devin Zane Shaw shows that the philosophy of art is the guiding thread to understanding Schelling's philosophical development from his early works in 1795-1796 through his theological turn in 1809-1810. Schelling's philosophy of art is the 'keystone' of the system; it unifies his idea of freedom and his philosophy of nature. Schelling's idea of freedom is developed through a critique of the formalism of Kant's and Fichte's practical philosophies, and his nature-philosophy is developed to show how subjectivity and objectivity emerge from a common source in nature. The philosophy of art plays a dual role in the system. First, Schelling argues that artistic activity produces through the artwork a sensible realization of the ideas of philosophy. Second, he argues that artistic production creates the possibility of a new mythology that can overcome the socio-political divisions that structure the relationships between individuals and society. Shaw's careful analysis shows how art, for Schelling, is the highest expression of human freedom.

Author : Paul Ricoeur
Publisher : Studies in Phenomenology and E
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124079208

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Freedom and Nature by Paul Ricoeur Pdf

This volume, the first part of Paul Ricoeur's Philosophy of the Will, is an eidetics, carried out within carefully imposed phenomenological brackets. It seeks to deal with the essential structure of man's being in the world, and so it suspends the distorting dimensions of existence, the bondage of passion, and the vision of innocence, to which Ricoeur returns in his later writings. The result is a conception of man as an incarnate Cogito, which can make the polar unity of subject and object intelligible and provide a basic continuity for the various aspects of inquiry into man's being-in-the-world.

Author : Donald Rutherford,J. A. Cover
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195143744

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Leibniz by Donald Rutherford,J. A. Cover Pdf

New essays offer an overview of current research into Leibniz' metaphysics, situating this distinctive philosophy of nature.

Author : Bronislaw Malinowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317438137

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Freedom and Civilization by Bronislaw Malinowski Pdf

From the early days of Hitler’s rise to power, Bronislaw Malinowski was an outspoken opponent of National Socialism. In response to this, Malinowski began to devote much attention to the analysis of war, from its development throughout history to its disastrous manifestations at the start of the Second World War. Freedom and Civilization, first published in 1947, is the final expression of Malinowski’s basic beliefs and conclusions regarding the war, totalitarianism and the future of humanity. This book will be of interest to students of politics and history.

Author : Christine Wushke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Spiritual life
ISBN : 098896421X

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Freedom is Your Nature by Christine Wushke Pdf

This is an extraordinary new and important work on the inner journey written by Christine Wushke, a woman whose life has seen a series of classical spiritual encounters and experiences. In these pages, she shares with us her amazing revelations, their intoxicating sweetness, and their life-giving fruit. But the book is more than just the fascinating story of Christine's own spiritual growth, for it unfolds for the reader a renewed understanding of life in general, accompanied by practical exercises that anyone can use to begin to change their own inner landscape - and with it - their outer world. Using parables, stories, experiences, and insights from her meditations, she takes the reader on a double-decker journey: both hers and their own.

Author : Michael Polanyi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Liberty
ISBN : UOM:39015027387995

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The Contempt of Freedom by Michael Polanyi Pdf

Author : Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosoph Paul Guyer,Paul Guyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199273461

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Kant's System of Nature and Freedom by Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosoph Paul Guyer,Paul Guyer Pdf

The governing theme of this volume is the role of systematicity in Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy. Kant's System of Nature and Freedom will be essential for anyone working on the history of modern philosophy and related areas of ethics, philosophy of science, and metaphysics.

Author : J. Melvin Woody
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0271042532

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Freedom's Embrace by J. Melvin Woody Pdf

To be free is to escape all limitations and obstacles&—or so we think at first. But if we probe further, we discover that freedom embraces its own necessities, a set of conditions without which it could not exist. Freedom's Embrace explores these necessities of freedom. J. Melvin Woody surveys competing conceptions of freedom and traces debates about the nature and reality of freedom to confusions about knowledge, humanity, and nature that are rooted in some of the most fundamental assumptions of modern Western thought. The preemption of freedom as an exclusively human privilege with all nature relegated to mechanical necessity is a fatal error that renders both humanity and nature equally unintelligible. What distinguishes human beings from other animals is not freedom but the use of symbols, which vastly extends the range of available options and enables us to envision freedom as an ideal by which customary institutions and norms may be judged and transformed. By carefully surveying its necessary conditions and limitations, Woody reconciles the salient competing conceptions of freedom and weaves them together into a richer and broader theory that resolves old controversies and opens the way toward an ethics of freedom that can meet the challenges of relativism and nihilism that arise from recognizing the historicity and malleability of culture.

Author : Douglas R. Weiner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999-02-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520928113

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A Little Corner of Freedom by Douglas R. Weiner Pdf

While researching Russia's historical efforts to protect nature, Douglas Weiner unearthed unexpected findings: a trail of documents that raised fundamental questions about the Soviet political system. These surprising documents attested to the unlikely survival of a critical-minded, scientist-led movement through the Stalin years and beyond. It appeared that, within scientific societies, alternative visions of land use, resrouce exploitation, habitat protection, and development were sustained and even publicly advocated. In sharp contrast to known Soviet practices, these scientific societies prided themselves on their traditions of free elections, foreign contacts, and a pre-revolutionary heritage. Weiner portrays nature protection activists not as do-or-die resisters to the system, nor as inoffensive do-gooders. Rather, they took advantage of an unpoliced realm of speech and activity and of the patronage by middle-level Soviet officials to struggle for a softer path to development. In the process, they defended independent social and professional identities in the face of a system that sought to impose official models of behavior, ethics, and identity for all. Written in a lively style, this absorbing story tells for the first time how organized participation in nature protection provided an arena for affirming and perpetuating self-generated social identities in the USSR and preserving a counterculture whose legacy survives today.

Author : Kenneth Urwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Eighteenth century
ISBN : WISC:89094640935

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A Century for Freedom by Kenneth Urwin Pdf

Author : Matthew Simpson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847143198

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Rousseau's Theory of Freedom by Matthew Simpson Pdf

Jean-Jacques Rousseau has a claim to be ranked above even Karl Marx as the political philosopher who has most influenced everyday life. His much-read philosophy of education alone would qualify him for a high place, but his political theory is even more important: decisions affecting millions of people were made based on the reading of certain lines of the Social Contract. Yet while politicians and scholars have studied this book for 250 years, almost no agreement exists on how to interpret its central concept: freedom. Rousseau's theory of freedom has led him to be called everything from the greatest prophet of individual liberty to the designer of the first totalitarian state. This book offers a new, unifying interpretation of the theory of freedom in the Social Contract. Simpson gives a careful analysis of Rousseau's theory of the social pact, and then examines the kinds of freedom that it brings about, showing how Rousseau's individualist and collectivist aspects fit into a larger and logically coherent theory of human liberty. Simpson's book not only helps us to understand one of the pre-eminent political minds of the 18th century, but also brings us into closer conversation with those he influenced, who have done so much to shape our world. And in light of the interest in contemporary contractualist philosophers like Rawls, Scanlon, and Gauthier, readers will find it worthwhile to return to the thinker who offers one of the most radical, profound, and insightful theories of the social contract ever devised.