Love As Human Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love As Human Freedom write by Paul A. Kottman. This book was released on 2017-05-30. Love As Human Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rather than see love as a natural form of affection, Love As Human Freedom sees love as a practice that changes over time through which new social realities are brought into being. Love brings about, and helps us to explain, immense social-historical shifts—from the rise of feminism and the emergence of bourgeois family life, to the struggles for abortion rights and birth control and the erosion of a gender-based division of labor. Drawing on Hegel, Paul A. Kottman argues that love generates and explains expanded possibilities for freely lived lives. Through keen interpretations of the best known philosophical and literary depictions of its topic—including Shakespeare, Plato, Nietzsche, Ovid, Flaubert, and Tolstoy—his book treats love as a fundamental way that we humans make sense of temporal change, especially the inevitability of death and the propagation of life.
Love, Freedom, and Evil
Love, Freedom, and Evil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love, Freedom, and Evil write by Thaddeus J. Williams. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Love, Freedom, and Evil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The defining premise of the Relational Free Will Defense is the claim that authentic love requires free will. Many scholars, including Gregory Boyd and Vincent Brümmer, champion this claim. Best-selling books, such as Rob Bell’s Love Wins, echo that love “cannot be forced, manipulated, or coerced. It always leaves room for the other to decide.” The claim that love requires free will has even found expression in mainstream Hollywood films, including Frailty, Bruce Almighty, and The Adjustment Bureau. The analysis shows convincingly that the claim that authentic love requires free will, does not meet the criteria of consistency, compatibility with Scriptural sources, and the demands of concrete encounter with problems of moral evil.
Spinoza on Human Freedom
Spinoza on Human Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spinoza on Human Freedom write by Matthew J. Kisner. This book was released on 2011-02-10. Spinoza on Human Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spinoza was one of the most influential figures of the Enlightenment, but his often obscure metaphysics makes it difficult to understand the ultimate message of his philosophy. Although he regarded freedom as the fundamental goal of his ethics and politics, his theory of freedom has not received sustained, comprehensive treatment. Spinoza holds that we attain freedom by governing ourselves according to practical principles, which express many of our deepest moral commitments. Matthew J. Kisner focuses on this theory and presents an alternative picture of the ethical project driving Spinoza's philosophical system. His study of the neglected practical philosophy provides an accessible and concrete picture of what it means to live as Spinoza's ethics envisioned.
The Reasons of Love
The Reasons of Love - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Reasons of Love write by Harry G. Frankfurt. This book was released on 2009-01-13. The Reasons of Love available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Bullshit, a profound meditation on how and why we love In The Reasons of Love, leading moral philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, and that the purest form of love is, in a complicated way, self-love. Through caring, we infuse the world with meaning. Caring provides us with stable ambitions and concerns, and it shapes the framework of aims and interests within which we lead our lives. Love is a nonvoluntary, disinterested concern for the flourishing of what we love—and self-love, as distinct from self-indulgence, is at heart of this concern. The most elementary form of self-love is no more than the desire to love, and self-love is simply a commitment to finding meaning in our lives.
Philosophical Inquiries Into the Nature of Human Freedom
Philosophical Inquiries Into the Nature of Human Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philosophical Inquiries Into the Nature of Human Freedom write by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling. This book was released on 2003-09. Philosophical Inquiries Into the Nature of Human Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Schelling was one of the foremost representatives of German Idealism, the equal of Fichte and Hegel. This is the only translation into English of one of his most important works.
