Free Will: An Historical and Philosophical IntroductionRoutledge, 11.01.2013 - 284 Seiten What is the place of human free will in our lives if all our actions are the result of some other cause? Does our processing unconscious beliefs or desires make us less free? Is our free will necessarily restricted if we do not choose our own beliefs? The debate between free will and its opposing doctrine, determinism, is one of the key issues in philosophy. Free Will: An historical and philosophical introduction provides a comprehensive introduction to this highly important question and examines the contributions made by sixteen of the most outstanding thinkers from the time of early Greece to the twentieth century: *Homer *Sophocles *Platto *Aristotle *St Augustine *St Thomas Aquinas *Descaartes *Spinoza *Hume *Kant *Schopehauer *Freud *Sartre *Weil *Wittgenstein *Moore Ilham Dilman brings together all the dimensions of the problem of free will with examples from literature, ethics and psychoanalysis. Drawing out valuable insights from both sides of the free will-determinism divide, and he provides an accessible and highly readable introduction to this perennial problem. |
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The coming of age of Christianity morality theology and freedom of the will | 68 |
The rise of science universal causation and human agency | 110 |
The age of psychology reason and feeling causality and free will | 164 |
Notes | 267 |
Bibliography | 268 |
Index | 271 |
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Anna Karenina Aquinas Archelaus argues Aristotle Augustine autonomy become behaviour believes belongs bondage Callicles calls capacity causal determinism cause character choice choose circumstances claim clairvoyance comes commitments compulsion conception contrast course decisions Descartes desire Dilman emotions everything evil expression external fate feelings Freud future give God’s grace Gorgias happen human actions human freedom Hume Hume’s ibid ignorance Iliad inclination individual inevitably instance intention involves Jocasta judgement Kant Kant’s kind lack Laius laws lives man’s means mind moral gravity moral knowledge motive move movement natural necessity Oedipus one’s oneself ourselves pain particular passions person person’s Phaedo philosophical Plato Polybus possible puts question reaction reality of free reason responsibility Sartre Sartre’s Schopenhauer self-knowledge self-mastery sense Simone situation Socrates someone Sophocles soul speaks Spinoza subject to causality super-ego Teiresias things thought turn values virtue voluntary Wittgenstein words