Freedom And Rationality

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674013513
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rationality and Freedom written by Amartya Sen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In this, the first of two volumes, Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight to these difficult issues.

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195678758
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rationality And Freedom (Oip) written by Amartya Sen and published by . This book was released on 2005-10-07 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amartya Kumar Sen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195665284
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rationality and Freedom written by Amartya Kumar Sen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Curran F. Douglass
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611478383
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rationality, Control, and Freedom written by Curran F. Douglass and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this book is the controversy—one of the oldest in philosophy—about whether it is possible to have freedom in the face of universal causal determinism. Of course, it is crucial to consider what such freedom might mean—in particular, there is an important distinction between libertarian “free will” and the more naturalistic view of freedom taken by compatibilists. This book provides background for laypersons through a historical survey of earlier views and some discussion and criticism of various contemporary views. In particular, it states and discusses the Consequence Argument, the most important argument challenging human freedom in recent literature. The main feature of the book is the argument for a solution: one that is within the compatibilist tradition, is naturalistic and in accord with findings of science and principles of engineering control theory. Some particular features of the offered solution include an argument for a close tie between freedom and control—where what is meant is the voluntary motion control of our bodies, and this “control” is understood naturalistically, by which the author means in accordance with concepts of engineering control theory and modern science. Such concepts are used to explain and demarcate the concept of “control” being used. Then it develops a working conception of what rationality is (since what is crucial is freedom in choice, and rationality is crucial to that), by reviewing texts on the subject by three expert authors (namely, Nathanson, Nozick, and Searle). It is argued that rationality is a species of biological learning control that involves deliberation; and that our freedom in choice is greatest when our choices are most rational.

Author : Jeff Jordan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847681532
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith, Freedom, and Rationality written by Jeff Jordan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophy of religion, once considered a deviation from an otherwise analytically rigorous discipline, has flourished over the past two decades. This collection of new essays by twelve distinguished philosophers of religion explores three broad themes: religious attitudes of belief, acceptance, and love; human and divine freedom; and the rationality of religious belief.

Author : David Van Mill
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791450369
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty, Rationality, and Agency in Hobbes's Leviathan written by David Van Mill and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new interpretation of the theory of Hobbes.

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674013514
Total Pages : 747 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rationality and Freedom written by Amartya Sen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In this, the first of two volumes, Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight to these difficult issues.

Author : Michelle Kosch
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199289115
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom and Reason in Kant, Schelling, and Kierkegaard written by Michelle Kosch and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-05-25 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces a complex of issues surrounding moral agency from Kant through Schelling to Kierkegaard.

Author : Jacob T. Levy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191026670
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom written by Jacob T. Levy and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intermediate groups— voluntary associations, churches, ethnocultural groups, universities, and more-can both protect threaten individual liberty. The same is true for centralized state action against such groups. This wide-ranging book argues that, both normatively and historically, liberal political thought rests on a deep tension between a rationalist suspicion of intermediate and local group power, and a pluralism favorable toward intermediate group life, and preserving the bulk of its suspicion for the centralizing state. The book studies this tension using tools from the history of political thought, normative political philosophy, law, and social theory. In the process, it retells the history of liberal thought and practice in a way that moves from the birth of intermediacy in the High Middle Ages to the British Pluralists of the twentieth century. In particular it restores centrality to the tradition of ancient constitutionalism and to Montesquieu, arguing that social contract theory's contributions to the development of liberal thought have been mistaken for the whole tradition. It discusses the real threats to freedom posed both by local group life and by state centralization, the ways in which those threats aggravate each other. Though the state and intermediate groups can check and balance each other in ways that protect freedom, they may also aggravate each other's worst tendencies. Likewise, the elements of liberal thought concerned with the threats from each cannot necessarily be combined into a single satisfactory theory of freedom. While the book frequently reconstructs and defends pluralism, it ultimately argues that the tension is irreconcilable and not susceptible of harmonization or synthesis; it must be lived with, not overcome.

Author : Gal Yehezkel
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030805832
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conceptual Foundation of Morality written by Gal Yehezkel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a solution to the ancient philosophical problem regarding the nature and the justification of morality. The importance of this subject matter is obvious, not merely as an abstract philosophical problem, but perhaps even more as a practical challenge, regarding the way we ought to live our lives: the values that ought to direct us, and the ends that we ought to pursue. In the course of this inquiry, a wide array of philosophical topics is explored: the nature of intentional action, and the role played by reason and desires in agency; the question of the final end of agency – better known in ancient terminology as the question of the purpose of life, and in modern terms as the question of the meaning of life; the nature of moral obligations and their rational justification; the challenge posed by determinism for the freedom of the will, with its implications on fatalism and moral responsibility; and normative questions regarding the value of life. This book is of interest not only to professional philosophers, but also to any intellectual who is concerned with questions about morality, our nature as agents, and the end that we ought to pursue.