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Freedom and Limits / John Lachs; ed. by Patrick Shade.

Lachs, John, author.; Shade, Patrick, contributor.; Shade, Patrick, editor.
2014
BD31 .L28 2014eb
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Title
Freedom and Limits / John Lachs; ed. by Patrick Shade.
Author
Lachs, John, author.
ISBN
9780823257935
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823257935
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (520 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823257935 doi
Call Number
BD31 .L28 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
128
Summary
Freedom and Limits is a defense of the value of freedom in the context of human finitude. A contribution to the American tradition of philosophy, it focuses attention on moral problems as we encounter them in daily life, where the search for perfection and the incessant drive to meet obligations make it difficult to attain satisfaction. The book argues that uniformity is unproductive: Human natures are varied and changeable, making the effort to impose a unitary good on everyone futile. Moreover, we don't need to strive for more than what is good enough: Finite achievements should be adequate to satisfy finite people.The ultimate aim of the book is to reclaim the role of philosophy as a guide to life. In doing so, it presents discussions of such important philosophers as Fichte, Hegel, Peirce, Dewey, James, and, above all, Santayana.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
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Shade, Patrick, contributor.
Shade, Patrick, editor.
Series
American Philosophy
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Frontmatter
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue
Part I: Mind and Reality
1 The Impotent Mind
2 Santayana's Philosophy of Mind
3 Fichte's Idealism
4 Peirce, Santayana, and the Large Facts
5 The Transcendence of Materialism and Idealism in American Thought
6 Primitive Naturalism
Part II: Self and Society
7 Two Views of Happiness in Mill
8 Questions of Life and Death
9 On Selling Organs
10 A Community of Psyches
11 The Cost of Community
12 Public Benefit, Private Cost
13 Leaving Others Alone
Part III: Pluralism and Choice-Inclusive Facts
14 Relativism and Its Benefits
15 The Element of Choice in Criteria of Death
16 Human Natures
17 Persons and Different Kinds of Persons
18 Grand Dreams of Perfect People
19 Philosophical Pluralism
Part IV: Meaningful Living
20 To Have and to Be
21 Drugs: Th e Fallacy of Avoidable Consequences
22 Loving Life
23 Aristotle and Dewey on the Rat Race
24 Improving Life
25 Stoic Pragmatism
26 Pragmatism and Death
Part V: Human Advance and Finite Obligation
27 The Relevance of Philosophy to Life
28 Both Better Off and Better
29 Education in the Twenty- First Century (with Shirley M. Lachs)
30 Learning About Possibility
31 Moral Holidays
32 Good Enough
Epilogue
Notes
Further Reading
Index

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