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Author : Christophe Bouton
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0810130157

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Christophe Bouton's Time and Freedom addresses the problem of the relationship between time and freedom as a matter of practical philosophy, examining how the individual lives time and how her freedom is effective in time. Bouton first charts the history of modern philosophy's reengagement with the Aristotelian debate about future contingents, beginning with Leibniz. While Kant, Husserl, and their followers would engage time through theories of knowledge, Schopenhauer, Schelling, Kierkegaard, and (later), Heidegger, Sartre, and Levinas applied a phenomenological and existential methodology to time, but faced a problem of the temporality of human freedom. Bouton's is the first major work of its kind since Bergson's Time and Free Will (1889), and Bouton's "mystery of the future," in which the individual has freedom within the shifting bounds dictated by time, charts a new direction.

Author : Otfried Höffe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 13,45 MB
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 022646606X

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In this ambitious book, philosopher Otfried Höffe provides a sophisticated account of the principle of freedom and its role in the project of modernity. Höffe addresses a set of complex questions concerning the possibility of political justice and equity in the modern world, the destruction of nature, the dissolving of social cohesion, and the deregulation of uncontrollable markets. Through these considerations, he shows how the idea of freedom is central to modernity, and he assesses freedom’s influence in a number of cultural dimensions, including the natural, economic and social, artistic and scientific, political, ethical, and personal-metaphysical. Neither rejecting nor defending freedom and modernity, he instead explores both from a Kantian point of view, looking closely at the facets of freedom’s role and the fundamental position it has taken at the heart of modern life. Expanding beyond traditional philosophy, Critique of Freedom develops the building blocks of a critical theory of technology, environmental protection, economics, politics, medicine, and education. With a sophisticated yet straightforward style, Höffe draws on a range of disciplines in order to clearly distinguish and appreciate the many meanings of freedom and the indispensable role they play in liberal society.

Author : David J. Saari
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 1995-01-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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David Saari provides an extended essay on the nature of freedom in contemporary America, its historical roots, and its present-day manifestations. Drawing on the fields of history, law, politics, business, and philosophy, this wide-ranging study examines three facets of freedom—national freedom, freedom from the state, and freedom within the state—as they have developed in American law, politics, and society. Each of these facets is carefully defined and then applied to such contemporary issues as authority, property, equality, justice, and privacy.

Author : Daniel Martinez HoSang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 2023-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0520395603

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"In Where Do We Go From Here? (1967), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., described racism as 'a philosophy based on a contempt for life,' a totalizing social theory that could only be confronted with an equally massive response, by 'restructuring the whole of American society.' This book provides a survey of the truly transformative visions of racial justice in the United States, an often-hidden history that has produced conceptions of freedom and interdependence never envisioned in the nation's dominant political framework. This book brings together the stories of the social movements, intellectuals, artists, and cultural formations that have centered racial justice and the abolition of white supremacy as the foundation for a universal liberation. Daniel Martinez HoSang taps into moments across time and place to reveal the long driving force toward this vision of universal emancipation. From the abolition democracy of the nineteenth century and the struggle to end forced sterilizations, to domestic worker organizing campaigns and the twenty-first century's environmental justice movement, we see a desire to realize the antithesis of 'a philosophy based on a contempt for life.' These movements emphasized transformations that would liberate everyone from the violence of militarism, labor exploitation, degradations of the body, and elite-dominated governance. Rather than seeking 'equal rights' within such failed systems, they generated new visions that embraced human difference, vulnerability, and interdependence as central and productive facets of our collective experience"-- ǂc Provided by the publisher.

Author : Billy Bragg
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 45,59 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0571353231

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At a time when opinion trumps facts and truth is treated as nothing more than another perspective, free speech has become a battleground. While authoritarians and algorithms threaten democracy, we argue over who has the right to speak.To protect ourselves from encroaching tyranny, we must look beyond this one-dimensional notion of what it means to be free and, by reconnecting liberty to equality and accountability, restore the individual agency engendered by the three dimensions of freedom.

Author : C. Edwin Baker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Freedom of speech
ISBN : 0195079027

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Baker here evaluates the prevalent justifications for freedom of speech and formulates a liberty theory, which he applies to contemporary free speech cases as a means of suggesting possible reforms to free speech doctrine.

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Publisher : Sri Ramakrishna Math
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 21,39 MB
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN :

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This book of 27 articles deal with a whole range of freedom-related issues, mundane and spiritual. The articles analyse the various kinds of freedom that human beings seek, the meaning of freedom according to the paths of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sri Ramakrishna, the Holy Mother, and the direct disciples, and according to science. Six articles have been compiled from the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. The article Wings on Endless Air is inspired by the book Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach. The articles, written by monks, intellectuals and devotees, were earlier published in the annual issue of 2010 of the Vedanta Kesari, a monthly magazine of the Order. In this book, the articles are interspersed with visuals.