Fatalism
Author : Mark H. Bernstein
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Author : Mark H. Bernstein
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Philosophy
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Author : Robert B. Pippin
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release : 2012
Category : 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
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2011
Category : 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 : Patrick Francis Quinn
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 31,73 MB
Release : 1939
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Author : Dor Bahadur Bista
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 17,65 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,62 MB
Release : 2015
Category : 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 : Frank Ruda
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 2016
Category : 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 : Sarah Lin
Publisher :
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 2020-03-06
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The arrival of the Hero was worse than anyone could have imagined.To take her place as a full warrior of her tribe, Tani must travel across the vast grasslands of the Chorhan Expanse. But she has her sights set higher than a mere ritual journey: she wants to uncover a solution to the impending war that threatens her people. Her world has never been peaceful, torn between the many cultures that meet on the Chorhan Expanse, but the greatest threat is an expansionist army of monstrous non-humans who call themselves the mansthein.Legends tell of monsters who will attempt to conquer the world, but are the mansthein those monsters? Tani believes that peace may be possible, but there are others on both sides who believe in the legends with zealous devotion. All around her, warriors have their eyes on a glorious victory with no concern for the piles of bodies they'll create on the way.Tani will be joined by a killer pretending to be a healer, a mansthein commander struggling with his orders, a thief who pawned her heart of gold, and a strategist exiled from a foreign land. But none of them are the Hero. It doesn't matter how many shades of gray might exist, some people see only in black and white. And the terrifying truth is that the stories they tell might not be just legends.
Author : Max Weber
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,56 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1681373890
A new translation of two celebrated lectures on politics, academia, and the disenchantment of the world. The German sociologist Max Weber is one of the most venturesome, stimulating, and influential theorists of the modern condition. Among his most significant works are the so-called vocation lectures, published shortly after the end of World War I and delivered at the invitation of a group of student activists. The question the students asked Weber to address was simple and haunting: In a modern world characterized by the division of labor, economic expansion, and unrelenting change, was it still possible to consider an academic or political career as a genuine calling? In response Weber offered his famous diagnosis of “the disenchantment of the world,” along with a challenging account of the place of morality in the classroom and in research. In his second lecture he introduced the notion of political charisma, assigning it a central role in the modern state, even as he recognized that politics is more than anything “a slow and difficult drilling of holes into hard boards.” Damion Searls’s new translation brings out the power and nuance of these celebrated lectures. Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon’s introduction describes their historical and biographical background, reception, and influence. Weber’s effort to rethink the idea of a public calling at the start of the tumultuous twentieth century is revealed to be as timely and stirring as ever.
Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199942412
The book collects previously published articles on fatalism and the relationship between divine foreknolwedge and human freedom and includes a substantial introductory essay and bibliography. The introductory essay seeks to provide an analytic framework for the articles, and it highlights connections between free will and recent work on metaphysical dependence.