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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"freedom of the will"”.
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Freedom and fatalism in Wittgenstein's “Lectures on Freedom of the Will”
This thesis seeks to demonstrate the continuing relevance of Wittgenstein’s approach to the problem of freedom of the will, primarily as expounded in his “Lectures on Freedom of the Will” (LFW). My overall aim is to show how Wittgenstein works to reconfigure the debates about freedom of the will so …
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Reframing theories of evil: ethics, violence and the state
<p>Which theoretical frameworks are most powerful in providing us venues to think about evil, and how do they contribute to making “the social production and distribution of evil” visible or invisible? In its everyday usage, evil is a category that is often ascribed retrospectively, named after the …
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The Theme of Free Will in Milton's Major Poems
<p>One of the most vital elements in the poetry of John Milton is the concept of the freedom of the will, a concept that is one of the more obvious themes in his four most important poems. In Paradise Lost, free will functions as a destructive impulse motivating the tragedy. In Paradise Regained, …
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The concept of autonomy
The question of which of our actions or desires are genuinely attributable to us is the question I examine in this thesis. I use the term "autonomous" to describe those agents whose desires or actions are genuinely their own, and I refer to actions or desires which cannot genuinely be attributed to …
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The dehumanization of nature and the naturalization of the human: A study of Spinoza and Nietzsche
… and Nietzsche alike were committed to a twofold task: that of dehumanizing nature and naturalizing the human. I will further argue that this is an ethical task insofar as their ultimate objective was to discover the real basis for human excellence. The versions of naturalism articulated, …
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A loss of will: "Arminianism," nonsectarianism, and the erosion of American psychology's moral project, 1636--1890
<p>The concept of "the will" dominated American moral psychology for nearly three centuries. To possess a will was, among other things, to be made in the image of God and to have moral responsibility. College textbooks, as tools of moral inculcation, conveyed this moral psychology from the …
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The Trinitarian Doctrine of Grace in Martin Luther's The Bondage of the Will
The most systematic work Martin Luther ever created was his De servo arbitrio / The Bondage of the Will (1525), his powerful polemic against the leading Humanist of his day, Erasmus, who had criticized Luther in his De libero arbitrio diatribe sive collatio / The Freedom of the Will (1524). …