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Free Will - Historical and Philosophical Introduction

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1999
ISBN
9780415200561, 0415200563
LCC
BJ1460 .D55 1999
Open Library ID
OL373667M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1724501 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
282\282
Topic
History
Library
Great Science Textbooks DVD Library 2007
Time added
2009-10-26 09:21:54

Description

The debate between free will and its opposing doctrine, determinism, is one of the key issues in philosophy. Ilham Dilman brings together all the dimensions of the problem of free will with examples from literature, ethics and psychoanalysis, and draws out valuable insights from both sides of the freedom-determinism divide. The book 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 modern times: Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer, Freud, Sartre, Weil, Wittgenstein, Moore.

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