Practical Necessity Freedom And History

Author : David James
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198847885

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Practical Necessity, Freedom, and History by David James Pdf

By means of careful analysis of relevant writings by Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, and Marx, David James argues that the concept of practical necessity is key to understanding the nature and extent of human freedom. Practical necessity means being, or believing oneself to be, constrained to perform certain actions in the absence (whether real or imagined) of other, more attractive options, or by the high costs involved in pursuing other options. Agents become subject to practical necessity as a result of economic, social, and historical forces over which they have, or appear to have, no effective control, and the extent to which they are subject to it varies according to the amount of economic and social power that one agent possesses relative to other agents. The concept of practical necessity is also shown to take into account how the beliefs and attitudes of social agents are in large part determined by social and historical processes in which they are caught up, and that the type of motivation that we attribute to agents must recognize this. Practical Necessity, Freedom, and History: From Hobbes to Marx shows how Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, and Marx, in contrast to Hobbes, explain the emergence of the conditions of a free society in terms of a historical process that is initially governed by practical necessity. The role that this form of necessity plays in explaining history necessity invites the following question: to what extent are historical agents genuinely subject to both practical and historical necessity?

Author : David James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009288125

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Property and its Forms in Classical German Philosophy by David James Pdf

The theme of property is directly relevant to some of the most divisive social and political issues today, such as wealth inequality and the question of whether governments should limit it by introducing measures that restrict the right to property. Yet what is property? And when seeking to answer this question, do we tend to identify the concept with just one dominant historical form of property? In this book, David James reconstructs the theories of property developed by four key figures in classical German philosophy - Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Marx. He argues that although their theories of property are different, the concept of social recognition plays a crucial role in all of them, and assesses these philosophers' arguments for the specific forms of property they claim should exist in a society that is genuinely committed to the idea of freedom.

Author : David James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107292611

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Rousseau and German Idealism by David James Pdf

The claim that Rousseau's writings influenced the development of Kant's critical philosophy, and German idealism, is not a new one. As correct as the claim may be, it does not amount to a systematic account of Rousseau's place within this philosophical tradition. It also suggests a progression whereby Rousseau's achievements are eventually eclipsed by those of Kant, Fichte and Hegel, especially with respect to the idea of freedom. In this book David James shows that Rousseau presents certain challenges that Kant and the idealists Fichte and Hegel could not fully meet, by making dependence and necessity, as well as freedom, his central concerns, and thereby raises the question of whether freedom in all its forms is genuinely possible in a condition of human interdependence marked by material inequality. His study will be valuable for all those studying Kant, German idealism and the history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ideas.

Author : Borna Radnik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-11-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781350430044

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Freedom, in Context by Borna Radnik Pdf

G.W.F. Hegel was a radical and incisive thinker, whose ideas have shaped the face of political philosophy. With questions of political agency and free will as urgent as ever, this book reintroduces Hegel's ideas of freedom and the weight that it carries in the political, economic and social contexts of the 21st century. Examining the concept of freedom from a Hegelian Marxist perspective, Freedom, in Context argues that the essential relation between self-determination and causal necessity is a multifaceted process to be viewed through historical, temporal, logical and ontological lenses. Using examples from the Black Lives Matter movement, environmental justice, economic inequality, and democratic uprisings in Iran, the value of Hegel's philosophy is emphasised in contexts beyond the colonial, Eurocentric tendencies of his worldview. Emphasising the central role of temporality and history in the conception of free will gives this new reading of Hegel real practical import for the pressing political issues of our time.

Author : Steven Brust,Emma Bull
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765316803

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Freedom and Necessity by Steven Brust,Emma Bull Pdf

If you liked Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell-or Christopher Priest's The Prestige-or Iain Pears' An Instance of the Fingerpost-here is a classic of magic-tinged adventure you may have missed.

Author : James A. Clarke,Gabriel Gottlieb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108703283

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Practical Philosophy from Kant to Hegel by James A. Clarke,Gabriel Gottlieb Pdf

Scholarship on Kant's practical philosophy has often overlooked its reception in the early days of post-Kantian philosophy and German Idealism. This volume of new essays illuminates that reception and how it informed the development of practical philosophy between Kant and Hegel. The essays discuss, in addition to Kant, Hegel and Fichte, relatively little-known thinkers such as Pistorius, Ulrich, Maimon, Erhard, E. Reimarus, Reinhold, Jacobi, F. Schlegel, Humboldt, Dalberg, Gentz, Rehberg, and Möser. Issues discussed include the empty formalism objection, the separation between right and morality, freedom and determinism, nihilism, the right to revolution, ideology, and the limits of the liberal state. Taken together, the essays provide an historically informed and philosophically nuanced picture of the development of post-Kantian practical philosophy.

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : History
ISBN : 9781465592736

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The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf

Author : Martin Hägglund
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781101870419

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This Life by Martin Hägglund Pdf

Winner of the René Wellek Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Millions, and The Sydney Morning Herald A profound, original, and accessible book that offers a new secular vision of how we can lead our lives. Ranging from fundamental existential questions to the most pressing social issues of our time, This Life shows why our commitment to freedom and democracy should lead us beyond both religion and capitalism. In this groundbreaking book, the philosopher Martin Hägglund challenges our received notions of faith and freedom. The faith we need to cultivate, he argues, is not a religious faith in eternity but a secular faith devoted to our finite life together. He shows that all spiritual questions of freedom are inseparable from economic and material conditions. What ultimately matters is how we treat one another in this life, and what we do with our time together. Hägglund develops new existential and political principles while transforming our understanding of spiritual life. His critique of religion takes us to the heart of what it means to mourn our loved ones, be committed, and care about a sustainable world. His critique of capitalism demonstrates that we fail to sustain our democratic values because our lives depend on wage labor. In clear and pathbreaking terms, Hägglund explains why capitalism is inimical to our freedom, and why we should instead pursue a novel form of democratic socialism. In developing his vision of an emancipated secular life, Hägglund engages with great philosophers from Aristotle to Hegel and Marx, literary writers from Dante to Proust and Knausgaard, political economists from Mill to Keynes and Hayek, and religious thinkers from Augustine to Kierkegaard and Martin Luther King, Jr. This Life gives us new access to our past—for the sake of a different future.

Author : David James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108210355

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Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right by David James Pdf

Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right, one of the classic texts of German Idealism, is a seminal work of legal, social and political philosophy that has generated very different interpretations since its publication in 1821. Written with the advantage of historical distance, the essays in this volume adopt a fresh perspective that makes readers aware of the breadth and depth of this classic work. The themes of the essays reflect the continuing relevance of the text, and include Hegel's method, the concept of property, Hegel's view of morality, the concept of Sittlichkeit, the modern family, the nature and tensions of civil society, and the question of the modernity of the Hegelian state. The volume will be of interest to all scholars and students of German Idealism and the history of political thought.

Author : Steven B. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1991-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226763507

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Hegel's Critique of Liberalism by Steven B. Smith Pdf

In Hegel's Critique of Liberalism, Steven B. Smith examines Hegel's critique of rights-based liberalism and its relevance to contemporary political concerns. Smith argues that Hegel reformulated classic liberalism, preserving what was of value while rendering it more attentive to the dynamics of human history and the developmental structure of the moral personality. Hegel's goal, Smith suggests, was to find a way of incorporating both the ancient emphasis on the dignity and even architectonic character of political life with the modern concern for freedom, rights, and mutual recognition. Smith's insightful analysis reveals Hegel's relevance not only to contemporary political philosophers concerned with normative issues of liberal theory but also to political scientists who have urged a revival of the state as a central concept of political inquiry.

Author : Russell Rockwell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319756110

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Hegel, Marx, and the Necessity and Freedom Dialectic by Russell Rockwell Pdf

This book provides close readings of primary texts to analyze the linkage between G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophy and Karl Marx’s critical social theory of necessity and freedom. This is important for three reasons: first, to understand the significance of the changing relationships of work, society, and critical social theory in the origins of Hegelian-Marxism in the US, as documented in the recently published correspondence between the Marxist-Humanist theoretician Raya Dunayevskaya and the critical theorist Herbert Marcuse; second, to identify the intersections of the Critical Theorists Jurgen Habermas’ and Marcuse’s influential reinterpretations of Marx’s “value theory” of economy and society that enables navigation of the changing relationships of the social and economic spheres in the last century, as developed in Marx’s Grundrisse; and, thirdly, to assess the potential of Moishe Postone’s renewal of Marx’s value theory, largely conceived by the notion of a necessity and freedom dialectic intrinsic to capitalism.

Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Liberty
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024786071

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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill Pdf

Author : Frederick Charles Copleston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : NYPL:33433061710475

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A History of Philosophy by Frederick Charles Copleston Pdf

Author : Henry E. Allison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107145115

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Kant's Conception of Freedom by Henry E. Allison Pdf

Traces the development of Kant's views on free will from earlier writings through the three Critiques and beyond.

Author : Frederick Charles Copleston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39076001118434

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A History of Philosophy: Wolff to Kant by Frederick Charles Copleston Pdf