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| Author | : Frank Ruda |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0803288786 |
Pushing back against the contemporary myth that freedom from oppression is freedom of choice, Frank Ruda resuscitates a fundamental lesson from the history of philosophical rationalism: a proper concept of freedom can arise only from a defense of absolute necessity, utter determinism, and predestination. Abolishing Freedom demonstrates how the greatest philosophers of the rationalist tradition and even their theological predecessors--Luther, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Freud--defended not only freedom but also predestination and divine providence. By systematically investigating this mostly overlooked and seemingly paradoxical fact, Ruda demonstrates how real freedom conceptually presupposes the assumption that the worst has always already happened; in short, fatalism. In this brisk and witty interrogation of freedom, Ruda argues that only rationalist fatalism can cure the contemporary sickness whose paradoxical name today is freedom.
| Author | : John Martin Fischer |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0199942390 |
This book collects sixteen previously published articles on fatalism, truths about the future, and the relationship between divine foreknowledge and human freedom. It includes a substantial introductory essay and bibliography. Many of the pieces collected here build bridges between discussions of human freedom and recent developments in other areas of metaphysics, such as philosophy of time.
| Author | : Robert B. Pippin |
| Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0813931894 |
This book reveals the ways in which American film noir explore the declining credibility of individuals as causal centers of agency, and how we live with the acknowledgment of such limitations.
| Author | : David Foster Wallace |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0231151578 |
Presents David Foster Wallace critiques philosopher Richard Taylor's work implying that humans have no control over the future and includes essays linking Wallace's critique with his later works of fiction.
| Author | : William Lane Craig |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9789004092501 |
The ancient problem of fatalism, more particularly theological fatalism, has resurfaced with surprising vigour in the second half of the twentieth century. Two questions predominate in the debate: (1) Is divine foreknowledge compatible with human freedom and (2) How can God foreknow future free acts? Having surveyed the historical background of this debate in "The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge" and "Future Contingents from Aristotle to Suarez" (Brill: 1988), William Lane Craig now attempts to address these issues critically. His wide-ranging discussion brings together a thought- provoking array of related topics such as logical fatalism, multivalent logic, backward causation, precognition, time travel, counterfactual logic, temporal necessity, Newcomb's Problem, middle knowledge, and relativity theory. The present work serves both as a useful survey of the extensive literature on theological fatalism and related fields and as a stimulating assessment of the possibility of divine foreknowledge of future free acts.
| Author | : Mark H. Bernstein |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Sam Harris |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 2012-03-06 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1451683405 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Faith, a thought-provoking, "brilliant and witty" (Oliver Sacks) look at the notion of free will—and the implications that it is an illusion. A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement—without first imagining that every person is the true source of his or her thoughts and actions. And yet the facts tell us that free will is an illusion. In this enlightening book, Sam Harris argues that this truth about the human mind does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of social and political freedom, but it can and should change the way we think about some of the most important questions in life.
| Author | : Dor Bahadur Bista |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Susanne Bobzien |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2021-05-20 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0192636561 |
Determinism, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility brings together nine essays on determinism, freedom and moral responsibility in antiquity by Susanne Bobzien. The essays present the main ancient theories of determinism, freedom, and moral responsibility ranging from Aristotle via Epicureans and Stoics to Alexander of Aphrodisias in the third century CE. The author discusses questions about rational and autonomous human agency and their compatibility with preceding causes, external or internal; with external impediments; with divine predetermination and theological questions; with physical theories like atomism and continuum theory, and with the sciences more generally; with elements that determine character development from childhood, such as nature and nurture; with epistemic features such as ignorance of circumstances; with necessity and modal theories generally; with folk theories of fatalism; and also with questions of how human autonomous agency is related to moral development, virtue and wisdom, blame and praise. Historically unified, philosophically profound, and methodologically rigorous, Bobzien's discussions show that in classical and Hellenistic philosophy these topics were all debated without reference to freedom to do otherwise or to free will, and that the latter two notions were fully developed only later.
| Author | : Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 1996-04-25 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0195355407 |
This original analysis examines the three leading traditional solutions to the dilemma of divine foreknowledge and human free will--those arising from Boethius, from Ockham, and from Molina. Though all three solutions are rejected in their best-known forms, three new solutions are proposed, and Zagzebski concludes that divine foreknowledge is compatible with human freedom. The discussion includes the relation between the foreknowledge dilemma and problems about the nature of time and the causal relation; the logic of counterfactual conditionals; and the differences between divine and human knowing states. An appendix introduces a new foreknowledge dilemma that purports to show that omniscient foreknowledge conflicts with deep intuitions about temporal asymmetry, quite apart from considerations of free will. Zagzebski shows that only a narrow range of solutions can handle this new dilemma. A compelling contribution to the field, The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge will appeal to students and scholars of theistic philosophy and the philosophy of religion.
