Free will : an historical and philosophical introduction / Ilham Dilman.

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Dilman, Ilham

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 273 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0203158377
9780203158371
0203002385
9780203002384
9780415200554
0415200555
9780415200561
0415200563
1134636822
9781134636822
1134636830
9781134636839
1280334673
9781280334672
9786610334674
6610334676

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Free will.DDC classification:

123/.5/09 21

LOC classification:

BJ1460 .D55 1999eb

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08.49
CC 7220
5,1

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Contents:

pt. 1. Early Greek thinkers : moral determinism and individual responsibility -- pt. 2. The coming of age of Christianity : morality, theology and freedom of the will -- pt. 3. The rise of science : universal causation and human agency -- pt. 4. The age of psychology : reason and feeling, causality and free will.

Summary: What is the place of human free will in our lives if all our actions are the result of some other cause? Does our possessing 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, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Sartre, Weil, Wittgenstein, Moore.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-270) and index.

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What is the place of human free will in our lives if all our actions are the result of some other cause? Does our possessing 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, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Sartre, Weil, Wittgenstein, Moore.

English.

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