Freedom and Limits

John Lachs

Published by Fordham University Press 2014

Freedom and Limits

John Lachs
Edited by: Patrick Shade

In the series American Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823257935

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About this book

Freedom and Limits is a defense of the value of freedom in the context of human finitude. Working out of the American pragmatist tradition, the book aims to reclaim the role of philosophy as a guide to life.

Author / Editor information

Lachs John :

John Lachs is Centennial Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His latest book is Stoic Pragmatism.Shade Patrick :

Patrick Shade is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rhodes College.

Reviews

Lachs's provocative volume invites readers to accept human finitude and (re)engage philosophy as a guide to life's enduring societal challenges.

—Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley:
“This book brings to the scholarly world a well-organized, informative collection of original and stimulating philosophy reflections by John Lachs, one of the most respected philosophers in America.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Patrick Shade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Prologue The Personal Value and Social Usefulness of Philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Part I: Mind and Reality
1 The Impotent Mind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
2 Santayana’s Philosophy of Mind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
3 Fichte’s Idealism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
4 Peirce, Santayana, and the Large Facts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
5 The Transcendence of Materialism and Idealism in American Thought Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
6 Primitive Naturalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Part II: Self and Society
7 Two Views of Happiness in Mill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
8 Questions of Life and Death Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
9 On Selling Organs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
10 A Community of Psyches Santayana on Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
11 The Cost of Community Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
12 Public Benefit, Private Cost Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
13 Leaving Others Alone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Part III: Pluralism and Choice-Inclusive Facts
14 Relativism and Its Benefits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
15 The Element of Choice in Criteria of Death Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
16 Human Natures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
17 Persons and Different Kinds of Persons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
18 Grand Dreams of Perfect People Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
19 Philosophical Pluralism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Part IV: Meaningful Living
20 To Have and to Be Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
21 Drugs: Th e Fallacy of Avoidable Consequences Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
22 Loving Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
23 Aristotle and Dewey on the Rat Race Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
24 Improving Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
25 Stoic Pragmatism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
26 Pragmatism and Death Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Part V: Human Advance and Finite Obligation
27 The Relevance of Philosophy to Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
28 Both Better Off and Better Moral Progress Amid Continuing Carnage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
29 Education in the Twenty- First Century (with Shirley M. Lachs) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
30 Learning About Possibility Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
31 Moral Holidays Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
32 Good Enough Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	449
Epilogue Physician Assisted Suicide Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	459
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	475
Further Reading Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	495

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 520
Keywords: Human natures; good enough; Santayana; finitude; freedom; infinite obligations; satisfaction; choice inclusive facts; progress

eBook

Published: March 3, 2014
ISBN: 9780823257935