Ilham Dilman

Free Will (eBook, ePUB)

An Historical and Philosophical Introduction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134636822
• Artikelnr.: 42653494

Autorenporträt

Ilman Dilman is professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is the author of numerous works of epistemology, philosophical psychology, aesthetics and existentialism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1 Early Greek Thinkers
Chapter 1 Homer and the Iliad
Chapter 2 Sophocles' Oedipus
Chapter 3 Plato and Moral Determinism
Chapter 4 Aristotle
Part 2 The Coming of Age of Christianity
Chapter 5 St Augustine
Chapter 6 St Thomas Aquinas
Part 3 The Rise of Science
Chapter 7 Descartes' Dualism
Chapter 8 Spinoza
Chapter 9 Hume and Kant
Part 4 The Age of Psychology
Chapter 10 Schopenhauer
Chapter 11 Freud
Chapter 12 Sartre
Chapter 13 Simone Weil
Chapter 14 G E Moore
Chapter 15 Wittgenstein
Chapter 16 Conclusion