Freedom within Reason

Freedom within Reason
Author: Susan Wolf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 175
Release: 1993-10-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 019535897X

Philosophers typically see the issue of free will and determinism in terms of a debate between two standard positions. Incompatibilism holds that freedom and responsibility require causal and metaphysical independence from the impersonal forces of nature. According to compatibilism, people are free and responsible as long as their actions are governed by their desires. 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. But the wish to form our own desires from nothing is both futile and arbitrary. Some of the forces beyond our control are friends to freedom rather than enemies of it: they endow us with faculties of reason, perception, and imagination, and provide us with the data by which we come to see and appreciate the world for what it is. The independence we want, Wolf argues, is not independence from the world, but independence from forces that prevent or preclude us from choosing how to live in light of a sufficient appreciation of the world. The freedom we want is a freedom within reason and the world.

A Freedom That Comes From Within

A Freedom That Comes From Within
Author: Khalil Osiris with Constance Killian
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2018-06-30
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0578202840

His epiphany was that he could get out before he was released.

“Prison is a metaphor for self-imposed limitations,” Khalil says. He explains, “I’ve known people from the most privileged environments and shared cell space with people who have only ever known hardship and adversity. I’ve come to believe that everyone, regardless of their history or current situation, is in a prison of some sort, a prison of their own making that limits them in some way, whether they’re aware of it or not.”

A Freedom That Comes From Within is a transformative book about finding your own freedom—a freedom that can inspire more conscious, positive choices and establish a strong, quiet center from which to live a more fulfilling and meaningful life. No matter what your life looks like right now or how limited and powerless you may perceive yourself to be, you hold the key to your own freedom!

“This book is a powerful, reflective piece that left me wanting more from Osiris.”
—Dumani Mandela

A Freedom That Comes from Within

A Freedom That Comes from Within
Author: Khalil Osiris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2018-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578401270

Having spent several years in prison, Khalil Osiris realised he had been incarcerated long before he was arrested. A Freedom That Comes From Within is his transformative book about finding your own freedom. Freedom in the midst of any circumstance or situation. Freedom no matter what your life looks like right now. Freedom regardless of how limited and powerless you may currently perceive yourself to be.

She Stood for Freedom

She Stood for Freedom
Author: Loki Mulholland
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781629721774

Biography of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland follows her from her childhood in 1950s Virginia through her high school and college years, when she joined the Civil Rights Movement, attending demonstrations and sit-ins. She also participated in the Freedom Rides of 1961 and was arrested and imprisoned. Her life has been spent standing up for human rights.

Jesus Over Everything

Jesus Over Everything
Author: Lisa Whittle
Publisher: W Publishing Group
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780785231981

As Christian women, we desire to put Jesus first. We want to prioritize him above all, knowing instinctively that when we do, everything else in our lives will fall into alignment. Yet life feels complicated, and the demands of our daily lives leave our priorities out of order and our hearts longing for more. Author, speaker, and Bible teacher Lisa Whittle is passionate about helping people pursue Jesus for life, grow deep roots of faith, and walk strong in a world that so often seems to have gone crazy. In Jesus Over Everything, Lisa shares eight statements of choice to help us grow in our understanding of what it means to put Jesus first amid the craziness our days bring, including choices such as commitment over mood, steady over hype, holiness over freedom, service over spotlight, and more. Jesus Over Everything is a practical, compelling picture of what we crave yet struggle to define as we seek to give God his rightful place in our everyday lives.

Freedom Is an Inside Job

Freedom Is an Inside Job
Author: Zainab Salbi
Publisher: Sounds True
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-10-02
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1683642066

From nationalbestselling author and humanitarian Zainab Salbi, a powerful look at what happens when we heal our shadows and align with our core values. “May this book help create bridges to a much bigger and kinder world.” —Gloria Steinem, author of My Life on the Road and Revolution from Within “If you want to know what true self-power is, then read this book. It will open your inner eye to the beauty of your own being.” —Deepak Chopra, MD, author of The Healing Self and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success How can we transform our collective fear and the deep divisions between us into meaningful change? In Freedom Is an Inside Job, bestselling author, humanitarian, and TV personality Zainab Salbi shares that to transform our outer world, we must turn towards our inner world. After years of working as a successful CEO and change-maker, Salbi realized that if she wanted to confront and heal the shadows of the world, she needed to face her own shadows first. Holding nothing back, Salbi shares pivotal moments from her personal life alongside poignant and fascinating stories from her encounters around the world. Through her stories, we learn that if we want to create real change, we need to heal the inconsistencies within our own values, actions, and goals. As Salbi explores her own riveting journey to wholeness, readers learn how embarking on such a journey enables each of us to create the world we want to live in. “So long as we are conflicted within, we will continue to have conflict without,” writes Salbi. “If we want to change the world, we need to begin with ourselves. This is the path to freedom.”

Discipline Equals Freedom

Discipline Equals Freedom
Author: Jocko Willink
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2020-10-13
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1250276187

In this expanded edition of the 2017 mega-bestseller, updated with brand new sections like DO WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY, SUGAR COATED LIES and DON'T NEGOTIATE WITH WEAKNESS, readers will discover new ways to become stronger, smarter, and healthier. Jocko Willink's methods for success were born in the SEAL Teams, where he spent most of his adult life, enlisting after high school and rising through the ranks to become the commander of the most highly decorated special operations unit of the war in Iraq. In Discipline Equals Freedom, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Extreme Ownership describes how he lives that mantra: the mental and physical disciplines he imposes on himself in order to achieve freedom in all aspects of life. Many books offer advice on how to overcome obstacles and reach your goals--but that advice often misses the most critical ingredient: discipline. Without discipline, there will be no real progress. Discipline Equals Freedom covers it all, including strategies and tactics for conquering weakness, procrastination, and fear, and specific physical training presented in workouts for beginner, intermediate, and advanced athletes, and even the best sleep habits and food intake recommended to optimize performance. FIND YOUR WILL, FIND YOUR DISCIPLINE--AND YOU WILL FIND YOUR FREEDOM

Time and Freedom

Time and Freedom
Author: Christophe Bouton
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2014-10-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0810130157

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.