Proceeds in a logical fashion to show how, when thinking morally, a man can be both free and rational.
In Freedom Within Reason, Susan Wolf charts a path between these traditional positions: We are not free and responsible, she argues, for actions that are governed by desires that we cannot help having.
This book traces a complex of issues surrounding moral agency from Kant through Schelling to Kierkegaard.
Ed . L. W. Beck and trans . R. E. Anchor , L. W. Beck , and E. L. Fackenheim . Indianapolis and New York : Bobbs - Merrill , 1963 . Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik , die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten konnen .
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... thereby increasing our understanding ( p d; p s); (b) being passively affected makes possible our survival, ... The problem is that these claims about passivity would be inconsistent if the free man were the model.
The first part of this work analyzes social morality as a system of authoritative moral rules.
Matthew J. Kisner focuses on this theory and presents an alternative picture of the ethical project driving Spinoza's philosophical system.
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.
Shows the relevance of Schiller_s thought for contemporary philosophy, particularly aesthetics, ethics, and politics. This book seeks to draw attention to Friedrich Schiller (1759_1805) as a philosophical thinker in his own right.
Liberal Paradox and the Voluntary Exchange of Rights Exercising , " Journal of Economic Theory , 22 : 407-422 . Suzumura , Kotaro ( 1983 ) . Rational Choice , Collective Decisions and Social Welfare ( Cambridge : Cambridge University ...