Paperback / softback | |
January 16, 2019 | |
9780813232089 | |
English | |
266 | |
9.00 Inches (US) | |
6.00 Inches (US) | |
.9 Pounds (US) | |
$34.95 USD | |
v2.1 Reference | |
Freedom and the Human Person
In the Western tradition, freedom and the human person have been at the center of philosophical, theological, moral, and political debates since the origins of this tradition. Although contemporary discourse betrays the multiplicity of these roots, the necessary historical perspective for evaluating them is almost always lacking, even in scholarly studies. The terms "freedom" and "person" carry such overwhelming force in the modern world that the critical distance required for grasping what is at stake in using them is extremely hard to gain.
The present collection seeks to contribute toward finding that distance by making the tradition of thought more a living reality and not an object of arid analyses. Unlike most collections the present one transcends disciplinary boundaries, as it acknowledges the interconnectedness of philosophical, theological, and political arguments on these themes.
The contributors are prominent authorities in particular historical periods or in figures in Western thought, and they treat approaches to freedom and the human person in ancient Greek, biblical, medieval and modern sources, although the major emphasis is on the thought of leading philosophers (Plato, Boethius, Aquinas, Ockham, Machiavelli, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, et al.). Their essays bring forward profound contrasts in how freedom and personhood have been grounded and characterized, notably the contrasts between groundings in natural reason and in supernatural revelation, between premodern teleological thinking and modern thinking on self-sovereignty without teleology, and within modern thought between positions favoring individual autonomy and others securing freedom and its exercise in communal or traditional life. Several of the papers shed light on the relations of freedom and personhood to the human powers of speech, thought, and judgment.
The contributors to the volume are Seth Benardete, Michael Gillespie, Leon Kass, Robert B. Pippin, Robert Rethy, John M. Rist, Brian J. Shanley, O. P., Susan Meld Shell, Robert Sokolowski, Eleonore Stump, Nathan Tarcov, and Michael P. Zuckert (with Jesse Covington and James Thompson).
Richard Velkley, former professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of America, is Celia Scott Weatherhead Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University. He is author of Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy and Being after Rousseau: Philosophy and Culture in Question.
The present collection seeks to contribute toward finding that distance by making the tradition of thought more a living reality and not an object of arid analyses. Unlike most collections the present one transcends disciplinary boundaries, as it acknowledges the interconnectedness of philosophical, theological, and political arguments on these themes.
The contributors are prominent authorities in particular historical periods or in figures in Western thought, and they treat approaches to freedom and the human person in ancient Greek, biblical, medieval and modern sources, although the major emphasis is on the thought of leading philosophers (Plato, Boethius, Aquinas, Ockham, Machiavelli, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, et al.). Their essays bring forward profound contrasts in how freedom and personhood have been grounded and characterized, notably the contrasts between groundings in natural reason and in supernatural revelation, between premodern teleological thinking and modern thinking on self-sovereignty without teleology, and within modern thought between positions favoring individual autonomy and others securing freedom and its exercise in communal or traditional life. Several of the papers shed light on the relations of freedom and personhood to the human powers of speech, thought, and judgment.
The contributors to the volume are Seth Benardete, Michael Gillespie, Leon Kass, Robert B. Pippin, Robert Rethy, John M. Rist, Brian J. Shanley, O. P., Susan Meld Shell, Robert Sokolowski, Eleonore Stump, Nathan Tarcov, and Michael P. Zuckert (with Jesse Covington and James Thompson).
Richard Velkley, former professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of America, is Celia Scott Weatherhead Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University. He is author of Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy and Being after Rousseau: Philosophy and Culture in Question.
Paperback / softback | |
January 16, 2019 | |
9780813232089 | |
English | |
266 | |
9.00 Inches (US) | |
6.00 Inches (US) | |
.9 Pounds (US) | |
$34.95 USD | |
v2.1 Reference | |
Other Titles by Richard Velkley
Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization
edited by Lee Trepanier, Khalil M. Habib, with contributions byLuigi Bradizza, Brian Domitrovic, Joseph Fornieri, L. Joseph Hebert, John von Heyking, Gaelan Murphy, Mary Nichols, Michael Palmer, Thomas L. Pangle, Paul Seaton, Richard Ve...
Sep 2011
- University Press of Kentucky
$100.00 USD
- Hardback
$50.00 USD
- Paperback / softback
Other Titles from Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy
Metaphysical Themes in Thomas Aquinas III
John F. Wippel
Mar 2021
- The Catholic University of America Press
$65.00 USD
- Hardback
The Art of Conjecture
Clyde Lee Miller
Mar 2021
- The Catholic University of America Press
$75.00 USD
- Hardback
Beauty and the Good
edited by Alice M. Ramos
Nov 2020
- The Catholic University of America Press
$75.00 USD
- Hardback
Other Titles in PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern
The Catholic Enlightenment
edited by Ulrich L. Lehner, Shaun Blanchard
Aug 2021
- The Catholic University of America Press
$34.95 USD
- Paperback / softback
Metaphysical Disputation I
translated by Shane Duarte, Francisco Suarez
Jun 2021
- The Catholic University of America Press
$69.95 USD
- Hardback
Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx
Jonathan I. Israel
Jun 2021
- University of Washington Press
$39.95 USD
- Hardback
Other Titles in Philosophy
Latour and the Humanities
edited by Rita Felski, Stephen Muecke
Aug 2020
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
$34.95 USD
- Paperback / softback
$34.95 USD
- Electronic book text
Stories and the Brain
Paul B. Armstrong
May 2020
- Johns Hopkins University Press
$94.95 USD
- Hardback
$34.95 USD
- Paperback / softback
$34.95 USD
- Electronic book text
Alfred North Whitehead, Volume 1
Victor Lowe
Mar 2020
- Johns Hopkins University Press
$50.00 USD
- Paperback / softback