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Author : D. C. Schindler
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 2019-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780268102623
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.
Author : D. C. Schindler
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 14,52 MB
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0268102643
It is commonly observed that behind many of the political and cultural issues that we face today there are impoverished conceptions of freedom, which, according to D. C. Schindler, we have inherited from the classical liberal tradition without a sufficient awareness of its implications. Freedom from Reality 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. While many have critiqued the inadequacy of identifying freedom with arbitrary choice, this book seeks to penetrate to the metaphysical roots of the modern conception by going back, through an etymological study, to the original sense of freedom. Schindler begins by uncovering a contradiction in John Locke’s seminal account of human freedom. Rather than dismissing it as a mere “academic” problem, Schindler takes this contradiction as a key to understanding the strange paradoxes that abound in the contemporary values and institutions founded on the modern notion of liberty: the very mechanisms that intend to protect modern freedom render it empty and ineffectual. In this respect, modern liberty is “diabolical”—a word that means, at its roots, that which “drives apart” and so subverts. This is contrasted with the “symbolical” (a “joining-together”), which, he suggests, most basically characterizes the premodern sense of reality. This book will appeal to students and scholars of political philosophy (especially political theorists), philosophers in the continental or historical traditions, and cultural critics with a philosophical bent.
Author : John Enoch Powell
Publisher : Arlington House Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 34,65 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Robert M. Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 2005-04-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521844840
Showing the relevance of Hegel's arguments, this book discusses both original texts and their interpretations.
Author : Jeri Cipriano
Publisher : Beginner Biography (Look! Book
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1634409930
Sojourner Truth was born to slaves. She had no choice. But when she grew to be a young mother herself, she ran away with her child looking for freedom. She used her voice to speak for all slaves wanting to be free.
Author : Raymond Tallis
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,72 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Free will and determinism
ISBN : 9781788213806
Author : Bina Gupta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 26,54 MB
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1136653090
An Introduction to Indian Philosophy offers a profound yet accessible survey of the development of India’s philosophical tradition. Beginning with the formation of Brahmanical, Jaina, Materialist, and Buddhist traditions, Bina Gupta guides the reader through the classical schools of Indian thought, culminating in a look at how these traditions inform Indian philosophy and society in modern times. Offering translations from source texts and clear explanations of philosophical terms, this text provides a rigorous overview of Indian philosophical contributions to epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and ethics. This is a must-read for anyone seeking a reliable and illuminating introduction to Indian philosophy.
Author : Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1467790451
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, ALA Notable Children's Book, CCBC Best Children's Book of the Year, Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Kirkus Best Children's Books, NCTE Notable In the 1930s, Lewis's dad, Lewis Michaux Sr., had an itch he needed to scratch—a book itch. How to scratch it? He started a bookstore in Harlem and named it the National Memorial African Bookstore. And as far as Lewis Michaux Jr. could tell, his father's bookstore was one of a kind. People from all over came to visit the store, even famous people—Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, and Langston Hughes, to name a few. In his father's bookstore people bought and read books, and they also learned from each other. People swapped and traded ideas and talked about how things could change. They came together here all because of his father's book itch. Read the story of how Lewis Michaux Sr. and his bookstore fostered new ideas and helped people stand up for what they believed in.
Author : Axel Honneth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 21,24 MB
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0745680062
The theory of justice is one of the most intensely debated areas of contemporary philosophy. Most theories of justice, however, have only attained their high level of justification at great cost. By focusing on purely normative, abstract principles, they become detached from the sphere that constitutes their “field of application” - namely, social reality. Axel Honneth proposes a different approach. He seeks to derive the currently definitive criteria of social justice directly from the normative claims that have developed within Western liberal democratic societies. These criteria and these claims together make up what he terms “democratic ethical life”: a system of morally legitimate norms that are not only legally anchored, but also institutionally established. Honneth justifies this far-reaching endeavour by demonstrating that all essential spheres of action in Western societies share a single feature, as they all claim to realize a specific aspect of individual freedom. In the spirit of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right and guided by the theory of recognition, Honneth shows how principles of individual freedom are generated which constitute the standard of justice in various concrete social spheres: personal relationships, economic activity in the market, and the political public sphere. Honneth seeks thereby to realize a very ambitious aim: to renew the theory of justice as an analysis of society.