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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.