The Freedom Of Man

Author : Matthew J. Kisner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139500098

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Spinoza on Human Freedom by Matthew J. Kisner Pdf

Spinoza was one of the most influential figures of the Enlightenment, but his often obscure metaphysics makes it difficult to understand the ultimate message of his philosophy. Although he regarded freedom as the fundamental goal of his ethics and politics, his theory of freedom has not received sustained, comprehensive treatment. Spinoza holds that we attain freedom by governing ourselves according to practical principles, which express many of our deepest moral commitments. Matthew J. Kisner focuses on this theory and presents an alternative picture of the ethical project driving Spinoza's philosophical system. His study of the neglected practical philosophy provides an accessible and concrete picture of what it means to live as Spinoza's ethics envisioned.

Author : Rose Wilder Lane
Publisher : Laissez Faire Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Authority
ISBN : 9781621290117

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The Discovery of Freedom by Rose Wilder Lane Pdf

Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781616402952

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Theodicy by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Pdf

In this 1710 treatise, Gottfried Liebniz's only book-length work, he applies the idea of philosophical "optimism"-that we live in the best of all possible worlds-to the "problem of evil"-If a benevolent God exists, why do terrible things happen? He explores the possibility that humanity's happiness is not necessarily part of God's plan. Much of Leibniz's thinking in the realm of the sciences flowed from his philosophy-he believed the universe to operate under simple, intelligible, interconnected rules. Understanding how he approached the metaphysical world and humanity's place in it is vital to understanding his contributions to modern science. The impact of the work of German mathematician GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ (1646-1716) on modern science and technology is all but incalculable. His notation for infinitesimal calculus-which he developed independently of Newton-remains in use today, and his invention of binary counting is the basis for modern computing. He was a powerfully influential philosopher as well, and is still considered, alongside Descartes and Spinoza, one of the great 17th-century rationalists.

Author : Edward Bennett Williams
Publisher : Scribner Paper Fiction
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015024220611

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One Man's Freedom by Edward Bennett Williams Pdf

Lawyer's credo - that ours is a government of rules and laws, not of men, which are applicable alike to rich and poor, strong and weak, guilty and innocent.

Author : Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781504054218

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The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir Pdf

From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex comes a radical argument for ethical responsibility and freedom. In this classic introduction to existentialist thought, French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity simultaneously pays homage to and grapples with her French contemporaries, philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, by arguing that the freedoms in existentialism carry with them certain ethical responsibilities. De Beauvoir outlines a series of “ways of being” (the adventurer, the passionate person, the lover, the artist, and the intellectual), each of which overcomes the former’s deficiencies, and therefore can live up to the responsibilities of freedom. Ultimately, de Beauvoir argues that in order to achieve true freedom, one must battle against the choices and activities of those who suppress it. The Ethics of Ambiguity is the book that launched Simone de Beauvoir’s feminist and existential philosophy. It remains a concise yet thorough examination of existence and what it means to be human.

Author : John Randolph Lucas
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCSC:32106005335515

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The Freedom of the Will by John Randolph Lucas Pdf

The author, who pioneered this argument in 1961, here places it in the context of traditional discussions of the problem, and answers various criticisms that have been made.

Author : Paul A. Kottman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781503602328

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Love As Human Freedom by Paul A. Kottman Pdf

Rather than see love as a natural form of affection, Love As Human Freedom sees love as a practice that changes over time through which new social realities are brought into being. Love brings about, and helps us to explain, immense social-historical shifts—from the rise of feminism and the emergence of bourgeois family life, to the struggles for abortion rights and birth control and the erosion of a gender-based division of labor. Drawing on Hegel, Paul A. Kottman argues that love generates and explains expanded possibilities for freely lived lives. Through keen interpretations of the best known philosophical and literary depictions of its topic—including Shakespeare, Plato, Nietzsche, Ovid, Flaubert, and Tolstoy—his book treats love as a fundamental way that we humans make sense of temporal change, especially the inevitability of death and the propagation of life.

Author : Majed El Shafie
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780768487732

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Freedom Fighter by Majed El Shafie Pdf

It’s time to fight back! This is the true story of one man’s continuing fight for a world free of religious persecution. Majed El Shafie was arrested, tortured, and sentenced to die after he converted from Islam to Christianity. His dramatic story, and those of others worldwide who are suffering persecution, are told in shocking, yet sensitive detail. Especially startling is the true story of rescuing a very young Pakistani girl who experienced horrific sexual abuse—because her family would not convert to Islam. Although hard to imagine and even harder to accept, this important truth about religious persecution is blatantly exposed. Millions of families are praying for help. They are suffering daily in China, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, and many other countries—solely because of their beliefs. Freedom Fighter is Reverend El Shafie’s outreach—it follows his heroic work over a four-year period as he traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan to investigate claims of abuse, persecution, and slavery and to speak truth to governments that neglect and violate the human rights of their citizens. This fight involves all believers—please help.

Author : Kees W. Bolle
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608992652

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The Freedom of Man in Myth by Kees W. Bolle Pdf

Myth is not a remote subject, restricted to the limited intellect of "pre-logical" man. The question "What is man?" is an ancient one. It is also a recent one, still unanswered in the impasse of our sciences. Wherever and whenever human beings are alive, there are creators of myth among them. Kees Bolle singles out one group as having the most significant "say" in the formation of myths: the mystics, who epitomize the common urge for a simplicity beyond the whirlpool of personal existences. And, surprisingly, the author finds that the study of humor provides a great deal of insight into the study of religious traditions.

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Free will and determinism
ISBN : HARVARD:AH4D1V

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Freedom of the Will by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Nelson Mandela
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0759521042

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Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela Pdf

The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela tells the extraordinary story of his life--an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.

Author : Hassan Blasim
Publisher : Comma Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Madman of Freedom Square by Hassan Blasim Pdf

**Long-Listed for the 2010 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize** From hostage-video makers in Baghdad, to human trafficking in the forests of Serbia, institutionalised paranoia in the Saddam years, to the nightmares of an exile trying to embrace a new life in Amsterdam... Blasim’s stories present an uncompromising view of the West's relationship with Iraq, spanning over twenty years and taking in everything from the Iran-Iraq War through to the Occupation, as well as offering a haunting critique of the post-war refugee experience. Blending allegory with historical realism, and subverting readers’ expectations in an unflinching comedy of the macabre, these stories manage to be both phantasmagoric and shockingly real, light in touch yet steeped in personal nightmare. For all their despair and darkness, though, what lingers more than the haunting images of war, or the insanity of those who would benefit from it, is the spirit of defiance, the indefatigable courage of those few characters keeping faith with what remains of human intelligence. Together these stories represent the first major literary work about the war from an Iraqi perspective. 'Perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive...' – The Guardian, 12 Jun 10.

Author : Arthur Holly Compton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Free will and determinism
ISBN : OCLC:1070490131

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The Freedom of Man by Arthur Holly Compton Pdf

Author : Matthew Simpson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,8 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.

Author : D. C. Schindler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0268102627

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Freedom from Reality by D. C. Schindler Pdf

Presents a critique of the deceptive and ultimately self-subverting character of the modern notion of freedom, retrieving an alternative view through a new interpretation of the ancient tradition.