Between Freedom and Necessity: An Essay on the Place of Value: 99 (Value Inquiry Book Series) - Softcover

9789042013025: Between Freedom and Necessity: An Essay on the Place of Value: 99 (Value Inquiry Book Series)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9042013028 ISBN 13: 9789042013025

Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2000

This extended essay joins an old conversation at the intersection of freedom and necessity. Though it takes place at the beginning of the twenty-first century by the "Christian" reckoning that has become an integral part of European identity, it will at times read like a conversation between classical Greece and nineteenth-century Europe. The cast consists of characters drawn from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Plato as well as the authors themselves - Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, MacIntyre, and Nussbaum. Some of these writers have been associated with displaced, displacing claims of universality; but each is in place and in time in ways that are instructive for ethics. Myth, the matter of stories, becomes also the matter of critical reflection, which in turn is subjected to critical reflection. Every fragment of philosophy is a contribution to the reflection, and it is nothing if it is separated from the matter - the stories, the myths, and the characters (including us) who both make them and live in them.

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About the Author:

Steven Schroeder lives and writes in Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of three previous books, including Metaphysics of Cooperation: A Study of F.D. MauriceVolume 84 in the Value Inquiry Book Series.

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