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Freedom and limits /

This collection of articles by American philosopher John Lachs includes his discussions of philosophy of mind, medical ethics, his theories of mediation and choice-inclusive facts, and his recent espousal of anti-perfectionism and stoic pragmatism. Lachs acknowledges the complex tension that arises...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lachs, John (Autor)
Otros Autores: Shade, Patrick, 1965- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Colección:American philosophy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Patrick Shade
  • Prologue: The personal value and social usefulness of philosophy
  • The impotent mind
  • Santayana's philosophy of mind
  • Fichte's idealism
  • Peirce, Santayana, and the large facts
  • The transcendence of materialism and idealism in American thought
  • Primitive naturalism
  • Two views of happiness in Mill
  • Questions of life and death
  • On selling organs
  • A community of psyches: Santayana on society
  • The cost of community
  • Public benefit, private cost
  • Leaving others alone
  • Relativism and its benefits
  • The element of choice in criteria of death
  • Human natures
  • Persons and different kinds of persons
  • Grand dreams of perfect people
  • Philosophical pluralism
  • To have and to be
  • Drugs: the fallacy of avoidable consequences
  • Loving life
  • Aristotle and Dewey on the rat race
  • Improving life
  • Stoic pragmatism
  • Pragmatism and death
  • The relevance of philosophy to life
  • Both better off and better: moral progress amid continuing carnage
  • Education in the twenty-first century (with Shirley M. Lachs)
  • Learning about possibility
  • Moral holidays
  • Good enough
  • Epilogue: Physician assisted suicide.