Free Will in Montaigne, Pascal, Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire and Sartre
Author: Mary Efrosini Gregory File Type: pdf Free Will in Montaigne, Pascal, Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire and Sartre takes the reader on a journey through the corridors of time to explore the evolution of thought regarding free will. The arguments and works presented in this volume raise critical and timeless issues for ethicists, the criminal justice system and the responsible citizen. Montaigne held that humans can break out of the determinist confines of their given cultures and acquired habits by employing reason, welcoming change and promoting education. In The Nun, Diderot chronicles portraits of pathology, records symptoms and leaves it up to the reader to decide whether the unfortunate victims are products of nature, nurture or both. Rousseau thought that civilized man, having joined society, surrenders his free will to the general will to enjoy protection of his person, family and property. Sartre, an indeterminist, averred that since humans have the capacity to be self-reflective, they can exercise creativity with regard to who and how they choose to be from moment to moment. Freud observed that we are marionettes whose strings are commandeered by various realms competing for dominance - the conscious and subconscious id, ego and superego. Bernays, Freuds nephew, employed psychoanalytic theory as a tool to advise corporations how to entice the public to purchase their products when confronted with a range of choices. This book opens the door to lively classroom discussion on moral issues. French literature, philosophy, psychology and political science classes will find it an invaluable source presenting a wealth of views on free will.**
Author: Ilya Grigorik
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How prepared are you to build fast and efficient web applications? This eloquent book provides what every web developer should know about the network, from fundamental limitations that affect performance to major innovations for building even more powerful browser applications—including HTTP 2.0 and XHR improvements, Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSocket, and WebRTC.
Author: Louise Mabille
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This book offers the first detailed examination of the influence of the English-speaking world on the development of Nietzsches philosophy. In recent years, Nietzsches reputation has undergone a transformation and he is today seen as one of the greatest defenders of human freedom. His is more than just a model for political liberty. It is a grand vision of what humanity could be if it really unleashed its creative power. And Nietzsche owes more than just a passing debt to the Anglo-Saxon world in the construction of this vision. Yet much of what Nietzsche has to say about the British philosophy reaches the pitch of denunciation and personal insult. He refers to Darwin as mediocre and to John Stuart Mill as that flathead. While he gladly acknowledges the French roots of his thought, very little has been said about the English giants whose influence abounds in his work. Louise Mabille fills a gap in the scholarship on Nietzsche by offering an important and fascinating account of his engagement with the Anglo-Saxon philosophical tradition. **Review Louise Mabilles fascinating book examines Nietzsche from the novel perspective of his professed dislike of the English. Her lively discussions of his English protagonists succeed in clarifying the meaning of Englishness, while also exposing some of the ways in which Nietzsche himself was English. This book is highly recommended for anyone interested in Nietzsche and contemporary Nietzscheanism. Paul Patton, University of New South Wales, Australia Louise Mabilles fascinating book examines Nietzsche from the novel perspective of his professed dislike of the English. Her lively discussions of his English protagonists succeed in clarifying the meaning of Englishness, while also exposing some of the ways in which Nietzsche himself was English. This book is highly recommended for anyone interested in Nietzsche and contemporary Nietzscheanism. Paul Patton, University of New South Wales, Australia About the Author Louise Mabille teaches Philosophy at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Her publications include The Rage of Caliban (Maunsel and Co) and articles in several academic journals.
Author: Peg Rawes
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Peg Rawes examines a minor tradition of aesthetic geometries in ontological philosophy. Developed through Kants aesthetic subject she explores a trajectory of geometric thinking and geometric figurations--reflective subjects, folds, passages, plenums, envelopes and horizons--in ancient Greek, post-Cartesian and twentieth-century Continental philosophies, through which productive understandings of space and embodies subjectivities are constructed.Six chapters, explore the construction of these aesthetic geometric methods and figures in a series of geometric texts by Kant, Plato, Proclus, Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Husserl and Deleuze. In each text, geometry is expressed as a uniquely embodies aesthetic activity because each respective geometric method and figure is imbued with aesthetic sensibility and geometric sense (rather than as disembodies scientific methods). An ontology of aesthetic geometric methods and figures is therefore traced from Kants Critical writings, back to Plato and Proclus Greek philosophy, Spinoza and Leibnizs post-Cartesian philosophies, and forwards to Bergsons duration and Husserls horizons towards Deleuzes philosophy of sense.ReviewRawes, who is a lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, writes with a keen eye for connections between architectural design, the visual arts and geometrical minor philosophy. - Garin Dowd, Radical Philosophy About the AuthorPEG RAWESis Lecturer in History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK.
Author: Marina A. L. Oshana
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The past fifteen years have seen a wellspring of interest in the concept and practical nature of the self. Questions about the metaphysics of personal identity have preoccupied philosophical scholarship. Less attention has been paid to the topic of the self from the first-person standpoint, the point of view of a person who regards certain phenomena as distinctive of and essential to her identity. Nor has much attention been paid to how this concept of the self is related to responsible agency. This book argues that a persons self-conception affects her status as a responsible agent. (1) The book develops a hybrid view of the self as the object of self-consciousness that is the subject and owner of the events that occur by means of its agency. Agents have unique identities as particular beings, and identify themselves distinctively. (2) The book argues that a healthy, veridical sense of self grounds responsible agency by enabling persons to be aware of what they do and to understand their motives. Certain pathologies upset the unity of a persons identity, while others impair the lucidity of a persons sense of self, and still others disturb general features of responsible agency such as the capacity to act purposively and realize ones will through intentional behavior. The book explains what it means to be oneself, and what departures from this state signify for a persons ability to navigate life and make sense of himself in the process. The notion of acting out of character-of failing to be oneself in some noteworthy way-is relevant to a persons culpability because an individuals self-conception affects his status as an accountable agent. (3) To explain this, the book defends an account of responsible agency. Responsible persons are accountable, alert to normative reasons in support of or in opposition to their behavior and able to respond to reasons for action bearing normative force because these reasons have normative force. Accountable persons are unified agents, a status that calls for an admixture of being oneself, of agency-of authorship, executive control, and intentionality in thought and action, and of ownership.**
Author: Jasmuheen
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Co-creating Paradise is Book 2 of the Biofields & Bliss Series by Australian metaphysical Researcher, Jasmuheen. Filled with data and tools to transform our personal lives and our communities back into the state of paradise, BB2 also provides well-researched data on the worlds religions, the ancient wisdom, quantum physics, the multi-verses plus much more. Book 1 in this series is Four Body Fitness - Biofields & Bliss. Book 3 is the Madonna Frequency Planetary Peace Program.
Author: Dana Schwartz
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A hilarious, quirky, and unflinchingly honest memoir about one young womans terrible and life-changing decisions while hoping (and sometimes failing) to find herself, in the style of Never Have I Ever and Adulting. Join Dana Schwartz on a journey revisiting all of the terrible decisions she made in her early twenties through the internets favorite method of self-knowledge the quiz. Part-memoir, part-VERY long personality test, CHOOSE YOUR OWN DISASTER is a manifesto about the millennial experience and modern feminism and how the easy advice of you can be anything you want! is actually pretty fucking difficult when there are so many possible versions of yourself it seems like you could be. Dana has no idea who she is, but at least she knows shes a Carrie, a Ravenclaw, a Raphael, a Belle, a former emo kid, a Twitter addict, and a millennial just trying her best.
Author: Christian Frascella
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Het meisje bleef een paar seconden naar me kijken. Ik vermoedde dat ze zou gaan huilen. Ik had haast medelijden met haar, net als met alle mensen die het tegen me op durfden te nemen en zich daarmee oneindig belachelijk maakten. Toen trok ze langzaam haar plastic handschoenen uit. Ze keek naar de oude wijven. Ze kwam met trage passen achter de toonbank vandaan en ging voor me staan. Haar gezicht was volkomen uitdrukkingsloos. Het gebeurde in een flits ze haalde uit en trof me totaal onvoorbereid. Ik voelde haar knokkels tegen mijn gezicht. Daarna kwam de pijn en met de pijn een soort zwaartekrachtgolf. Ik voelde mijn lijf wentelen als een stuk zachte klei op een pin een mooie, volledige rotatie, mijn knieen knikten juist toen ik, aan het eind van de draai, opnieuw in haar boosaardige groene ogen keek. Daarna stortte ik met mijn volle gewicht boven op de stapel wit brood Recensie(s) NBD|Biblion recensie De 17-jarige ik-figuur woont samen met zijn aan alcohol verslaafde vader en zijn katholieke volgzame zus, die hij steevast aanspreekt als gore non, in een troosteloos huis in Turijn. We spreken eind jaren tachtig. Hij gaat van school na een uit de hand gelopen vechtpartij, gaat lomp en onbehouwen door het leven en vindt werk als bandwerker in een fabriek. Conflicten lost hij steevast op met zijn vuisten en enig mededogen is hem vreemd, behalve met zichzelf. Dan wordt hij verliefd op de slimme en bloedmooie Chiara en zij lijkt, in weerwil van zichzelf, ook voor hem te vallen. De auteur is een fantastisch verteller en je wordt helemaal meegesleurd in het leven en de gedachten van deze gekke en gevoelige tiener die vaak compleet losgeslagen lijkt. Het verhaal is intens, ironisch en vol humor, de taal sprankelend, maar soms ook bruut, en het personage boeit vanaf het begin. Halfweg gaat de vaart wat uit het verhaal, maar de diepgang maakt het dan weer goed. De auteur (1973) won drie literaire prijzen het verhaal wordt verfilmd. Vanaf ca. 14 jaar. (NBD|Biblion recensie, Anja van Geert) (source Bol.com)
Author: David C. Kang
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Why has the literature on Asian development not addressed the issue of money politics in Korea? How can we reconcile the view of an efficient developmental state in Korea before 1997 with reports of massive corruption and inefficiency in that same country in 1998 and 1999? Politics is central to the answer. This study argues that both Korea and the Philippines experienced significant corruption throughout the post-independence era, and that political--not economic--considerations dominated policy making in both countries.ReviewDavid Kangs recent book Crony Capitalism is deserving of special commendation and attention for its crisp and clear coverage of two cases, the Philippines and South Korea. The Review of PoliticsHis hypothesis is indeed intriguing and innovative.... Crony Capitalism is a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the states role in development and on the business-state relation in Koreas economy. It is among the first substantive comparative studies of Korea and another nation within Southeast Asia. Business History ReviewThis comparative approach is a critical starting point in analyzing two societies...This book is useful for understanding the challenges faced by a developing state. Pacific AffairsKangs approach fits within the genre of studies on developmental states, and most closely complements Alice Amsdens Asias Next Giant. But it reaches beyond this analysis and sets a new research course by providing political explanations for both successes and failures of the developmental state. Recommended for general readers and upper-division undergraduates and above. ChoiceDavid Kangs book gives excellent succor to the field of East Asian political economy, squarely dealing with both development and crisis and presenting a balanced analysis of what went right and what went wrong. Perspectives on Politics Book DescriptionWhy has the literature on Asian development not addressed the issue of money politics in Korea? How can we reconcile the view of an efficient developmental state in Korea before 1997 with reports of massive corruption and inefficiency in that same country in 1998 and 1999? Politics is central to the answer. In this book I make two arguments. First, both Korea and the Philippines experienced significant corruption throughout the post-independence era. Second, political--not economic--considerations dominated policy making in both countries.
Author: Howard Hughes
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Clint Eastwood is one of the worlds most popular action stars, who has matured into one of Americas finest producer-directors. Entertaining, illuminating and packed with information, Aim for the Heart is the first book to cover his full life in the movies, showing how as both actor and filmmaker Eastwood aims for the heart of the drama, whatever the story. Howard Hughes follows Eastwoods craft through over 50 movies. He looks at his beginnings in fifties B-movies and in TVs Rawhide and his launch into superstardom in Sergio Leones sixties spaghetti westerns. Later rolesare discussed, including Beguiled, The Bridges of Madison County and Million Dollar Baby. Since 1970,Eastwood has enjoyed parallel success as director-producer of his own Malpaso Productions, with Bird, Mystic River and Letters from Iwo Jima, demonstrating formidable directing credentials. Alongside details of all his movies, Eastwoods story is illustrated with film stills, glimpses behind the scenes, and rare poster advertising material.Also featuringthe most comprehensive credits filmography ever compiled on Eastwoods work, as star and director. ReviewAn exhaustive work, fine as a reference resource for someone who needs a little more information than the Internet Movie Database can provide. -- The Weekly StandardPraise for Howard HughesOn Stagecoach to TombstoneHold your horses for next months release of Stagecoach to Tombstone The Filmgoers Guide to Great Westerns, author Howard Hughes detailed tome on 27 classic films. - Newsday.comWritten with panache and fresh insightbuy it! Dave Worrall, Cinema RetroA deftly written collection of essays, full of fascinating insight, this will be a must for fellow travellers on the sagebrush trail. Howard Maxford, Film ReviewOn Once Upon a Time in the Italian WestHoward Hughes has written a well-researched, detailed, no-nonsense and above all enthusiastic guide to twenty of the best Italian Westerns from A Fistful of Dollars to My Name is Nobody. He has aimed for the heart, and unlike the bad guy in Fistful, he has hit it.--Christopher Frayling, author of Spaghetti WesternsAbout the AuthorHoward Hughes isthe author of Once Upon a Time in the Italian West, Crime Wave The Filmgoers Guide to the great Crime Movies, both published by I.B.Tauris, as well as The Pocket Essential Guide to Spaghetti Westerns and The American Indian Wars.