Freedom Without Responsibility

Author : Bruce N. Waller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0877227179

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Freedom Without Responsibility by Bruce N. Waller Pdf

In this book, Bruce Waller attacks two prevalent philosophical beliefs. First, he argues that moral responsibility must be rejected; there is no room for such a notion within our naturalist framework. Second, he denies the common assumption that moral responsibility is inseparably linked with individual freedom. Rejection of moral responsibility does not entail the demise of individual freedom; instead, individual freedom is enhanced by the rejection of moral responsibility. According to this theory of "no-fault naturalism," no one deserves either blame or reward.In the course of arguing against moral responsibility, Waller critiques major compatibilist arguments-by Dennett, Frankfurt, Strawson, Bennett, Wolf, Hampshire, Glover, Rachels, Sher, and others. In addition, the implications of denying moral responsibility-for individual freedom, for moral judgments and moral behavior, and for social justice-are examined; the supposed dire consequences of the denial of moral responsibility are challenged; and the benefits of denying moral responsibility are described. Author note: Bruce N. Waller, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio, is the author of Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict.

Author : Robert Lebow,Randy Spitzer
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781609943097

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Accountability by Robert Lebow,Randy Spitzer Pdf

Using a wealth of real-world examples, this breakthrough book offers a new freedom-based management paradigm that radically improves every aspect of business-from how we hire, compensate, and motivate people to how we address quality issues, serve customers, review employees, and more. Accountability tells the story of Pete Williams, a hard-charging CEO, who meets Stan "Kip" Kiplinger, a retired businessman, during a cross-country train trip. Pete's manufacturing business is in critical condition; productivity is falling. He's tried all the popular management approaches, but he can't get his people to be accountable for meeting their goals. Kip points out that every management system Pete has used is ultimately based on controlling people. Rather than encouraging people to be accountable, control-based systems discourage accountability by destroying people's sense of ownership of their job. Kip introduces Pete to a new way of leading people based on freedom-giving people the freedom to make their own choices and to do it their way. This doesn't mean anarchy; it means leadership expects everyone to act like an adult and take responsibility for his or her actions and their outcomes. Accountability details how this new approach yields a consistent flow of creative innovations and organizational improvements impossible under the old, coercive systems.

Author : Jiddu Krishnamurti
Publisher : Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Indian philosophy
ISBN : 0575053283

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On Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti Pdf

Author : Thomas Andrew Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521854603

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Freedom and Criminal Responsibility in American Legal Thought by Thomas Andrew Green Pdf

This book deals with the most fundamental problem in criminal law, the way in which free will and determinism relate to criminal responsibility.

Author : Thomas Pink
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192853585

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Free Will: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Pink Pdf

Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of free choices - but are these choices really free? Or are we compelled to act the way we do by factors beyond our control? This book looks at free will.

Author : Rob LeBow,Randy Spitzer
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781605096100

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Accountability by Rob LeBow,Randy Spitzer Pdf

The authors show how to transform a business by replacing the control and manipulation that typically characterize the workplace with personal accountability.

Author : Claus Dierksmeier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030047238

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Qualitative Freedom - Autonomy in Cosmopolitan Responsibility by Claus Dierksmeier Pdf

In the light of growing political and religious fundamentalism, this open access book defends the idea of freedom as paramount for the attempt to find common ethical ground in the age of globality. The book sets out to examine as yet unexhausted ways to boost the resilience of the principle of liberalism. Critically reviewing the last 200 years of the philosophy of freedom, it revises the principle of liberty in order to revive it. It discusses many different aspects that fall under its three main topics: the metaphysics of freedom, quantitative freedom and qualitative freedom. Open societies worldwide have come under increasing pressure in the last decades. The belief that politics and markets fare best when guided by the principle of liberty presently faces multiple challenges such as terrorism, climate warming, inequality, populism, and financial crises. In the view of its critics, the idea of freedom no longer offers adequate guidance to meet these challenges and should be partially corrected or even entirely replaced by countervailing values. Against the reduction of freedom to the merely quantitative question as to how much liberties individuals call their own, this book draws attention to the qualitative concerns which and whose opportunities society should foster. It argues that, correctly understood, the idea of liberty commits us to defend as well as advance the freedom of each and every world citizen.

Author : Germain Grisez,Russell Shaw
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1988-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268075552

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Beyond the New Morality by Germain Grisez,Russell Shaw Pdf

First published in 1974, with a second, revised edition in 1980, Beyond the New Morality has been used widely in introductory ethics courses at the undergraduate level. The book appeals to those who want something not overburdened with theory, and presented in a contemporary idiom. In this third edition of the now standard classroom text, Grisez and Shaw retain the best elements of the earlier versions, including their clear, straightforward presentation and use of nontechnical language. Although the basic approach, content, and organization remain substantially the same, the new edition does develop and amend some aspects of the theory. For example, the community dimension of morality is brought out more clearly and the first principle of morality is now formulated more accurately in terms of willing in line with integral human fulfillment.

Author : American Library Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UIUC:30112060168629

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The Freedom to Read by American Library Association Pdf

Author : Susanne Bobzien
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192636560

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Determinism, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility by Susanne Bobzien Pdf

Determinism, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility brings together nine essays on determinism, freedom and moral responsibility in antiquity by Susanne Bobzien. The essays present the main ancient theories of determinism, freedom, and moral responsibility ranging from Aristotle via Epicureans and Stoics to Alexander of Aphrodisias in the third century CE. The author discusses questions about rational and autonomous human agency and their compatibility with preceding causes, external or internal; with external impediments; with divine predetermination and theological questions; with physical theories like atomism and continuum theory, and with the sciences more generally; with elements that determine character development from childhood, such as nature and nurture; with epistemic features such as ignorance of circumstances; with necessity and modal theories generally; with folk theories of fatalism; and also with questions of how human autonomous agency is related to moral development, virtue and wisdom, blame and praise. Historically unified, philosophically profound, and methodologically rigorous, Bobzien's discussions show that in classical and Hellenistic philosophy these topics were all debated without reference to freedom to do otherwise or to free will, and that the latter two notions were fully developed only later.

Author : Hilary Bok
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400822737

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Freedom and Responsibility by Hilary Bok Pdf

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.

Author : Joe Saunders
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350187764

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Freedom After Kant by Joe Saunders Pdf

Freedom after Kant situates Kant's concept of freedom in relation to leading philosophers of the period to trace a detailed history of philosophical thinking on freedom from the 18th to the 20th century. Beginning with German Idealism, the volume presents Kant's writings on freedom and their reception by contemporaries, successors, followers and critics. From exchanges of philosophical ideas on freedom between Kant and his contemporaries, Reinhold and Fichte, through to Kant's ideas on rational self-determination in Hegel and Schelling, we see Kant's original arguments transformed through concepts of autonomy, freedom and absolutes. The political aspect of Kant's freedom finds further articulation in chapters on Marx and Mill who developed their own notions of political freedom after Kant. Revealing how Kant's concept of freedom shaped the history of philosophy in the broadest sense, contributors chart the development of an ethics of freedom in the 20th century which brings Kant into conversation with Heidegger, Beauvoir, Sartre, Levinas and Murdoch. This line of thinking on freedom signals a new departure for Kantian studies which brings his ideas into the present day and traverses major schools of thought including Idealism, Marxism, existentialism and moral philosophy.

Author : Richard C. Anderson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781467068895

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Freedom's Vector by Richard C. Anderson Pdf

Freedoms Vector: The Path to Prosperity, Opportunity and Dignity, is a book about Americaits government, its institutions, and its people. It is about a nation blessed with the finest system of governance ever devised. It is about a country that has outgrown its institutions and is in need of reconditioning. It is about a people who have been losing their faith and are waiting for a new call to greatness. Our country can recapture the spirit of 76, if we bring our better virtues and a sense of responsibility to bear upon the task. If our leaders reform their economics. If money and power do not stand in the way of freedom and democracy. If you love America, I think you will like this book. If you read this book, I think it may surprise and educate you. It may even annoy you. If it does, and you are inspired to craft a better plan for your country, I will have achieved my purpose in putting these pages between two covers.

Author : Idanai Emmanuel Genius Zawe
Publisher : Digital on Demand
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780620957663

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Pebbles of Executive Freedom by Idanai Emmanuel Genius Zawe Pdf

There is something inherent in the way our minds work that doesn’t fit very well with the characteristics shown by the world. People who have confidence in their work or ideas, who trust themselves to do what needs to be done without hesitation, are the ones who become successful. I call those people Total Quality Individuals. They no longer fear the erratic behavior of this world, they have learnt to focus on the positive information that helps them spot opportunities to take advantage of and create lasting success, rather than focusing on the negative information that reinforces their fears. While this may sound complicated, it all boils down to believing that one does not need to know what's going to happen next to be successful, every moment is unique, meaning every outcome is truly a unique experience. Each idea either works or it doesn’t, in any case, you wait for the next edge to appear and go through the process again and again. The edge means there is a higher probability of one outcome than another. The greater your confidence, the easier it will be to execute your ideas. In most cases people find it difficult or rather believe that the root cause of their problem is a result of how they think, more so, how they are thinking while executing their ideas. The main objective is to show the reader that it’s their attitude and state of mind that determines their results. To provide the reader with the specific beliefs and attitudes that are necessary to build a winner’s mindset, which means learning how to think in probabilities. Greatness is achieved by people who are willing to put themselves out there.

Author : Daniel Lacalle
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781642934342

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Freedom or Equality by Daniel Lacalle Pdf

Capitalism offers greater prosperity and opportunity for everyone, while socialism, unnecessary interventionism, and other choices inevitably fail. But capitalism is quickly falling out of favor with the middle class in the Western world. Fortunately, it can be fixed. The next decades will present numerous challenges: exponentially accelerating technology and use of robots, an aging population, repressive taxation, and the sustainability of education and health care costs—to name just a few. Freedom or Equality addresses those challenges while presenting a fresh examination of Social Capitalism—a moderate option between extreme solutions of all sorts that can deliver superior growth and prosperity worldwide.