Essay On The Freedom Of The Will

Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048611306X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essay on the Freedom of the Will written by Arthur Schopenhauer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVBrilliant and elegant in its treatment, Schopenhauer's 1839 essay on free will and determinism still remains relevant to modern readers. A useful introduction to the philosopher's work for students of philosophy or religion. /div

Author : Peter van Inwagen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107166500
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking about Free Will written by Peter van Inwagen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together van Inwagen's most significant essays in this major field, addressing key topics and including two entirely new chapters.

Author : Peter Van Inwagen
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0198249241
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Essay on Free Will written by Peter Van Inwagen and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1983 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the incompatibility of the concepts of free will and determinism and argues that moral responsibility needs the doctrine of free will

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom of the Will written by Jonathan Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521577663
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schopenhauer: Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will written by Arthur Schopenhauer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-22 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in 1839 and chosen as the winning entry in a competition held by the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences, Schopenhauer's Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will marked the beginning of its author's public recognition and is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant and elegant treatments of free will and determinism. Schopenhauer distinguishes the freedom of acting from the freedom of willing, affirming the former while denying the latter. He portrays human action as thoroughly determined but also argues that the freedom which cannot be established in the sphere of human action is preserved at the level of our innermost being as individuated will, whose reality transcends all dependency on outside factors. This volume offers the text in a previously unpublished translation by Eric F. J. Payne, the leading twentieth-century translator of Schopenhauer into English, together with a historical and philosophical introduction by Günter Zöller.

Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1557868573
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metasphysics of Free Will written by John Martin Fischer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1995-10-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metaphysics of Free Will provides a through statement of the major grounds for skepticism about the reality of free will and moral responsibility. The author identifies and explains the sort of control that is associated with personhood and accountability, and shows how it is consistent with causal determinism. In so doing, out view of ourselves as morally responsible agents is protected against the disturbing changes posed by science and religion.

Author : Isaac Watts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Essay on the Freedom of Will in God and in Creatures written by Isaac Watts and published by . This book was released on 1732 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sam Harris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451683405
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free Will written by Sam Harris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Paul Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190627603
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Free Will written by Paul Russell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a selection of papers concerning free will and moral responsibility. Among the topics covered, as they relate to these problems, are the challenge of skepticism; moral sentiment and moral capacity; necessity and the metaphysics of causation; practical reason; free will and art; fatalism and the limits of agency; and our metaphysical attitudes of optimism and pessimism.

Author : David Foster Wallace
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023115156X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fate, Time, and Language written by David Foster Wallace and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.