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1 online resource (vii, 336 pages). |
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Collection Philosophica,
1480-4670
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Collection Philosophica.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-330) and index. |
| Contents |
The mirror's reflections and the clockwork behind our smiles : human nature, agency, spirit, and mechanism -- What is human nature? -- Metaphysics and its critics -- Metaphysics as first science -- The concept of naturalism : some complications -- Naturalism and the normative -- Science and the history of analytic philosophy -- Contingency in early modern philosophy -- Charles W. Hendel and Hume : a review and reconsideration -- The singularity of the scientific revolution : Fred Wilson's defence of the early modern achievement in philosophy and the sciences -- Enlightenment, the philosophers, and race : some reconsiderations -- Kant, Christianity, and a kingdom of ends -- Philosophical reflections on Homer -- Tradition, history, and oral memory in early Greek epic -- The other Odysseus, the false Troy, and oral tradition. |
| Summary |
Freedom, Nature, and World is a collection of essays by Peter Loptson which examine issues posed by a broadly naturalistic view of the world, which Loptson defends while also exploring some of the challenges it confronts. Papers on freedom, Kant, Christianity, Homer, the history of analytic philosophy, the place of humanity in nature, and other topics, are brought together within a synoptically naturalistic purview. All the essays rest on, and in some cases extend, that synoptic perspective, which seeks to encompass both a scientific understanding of humankind in the natural world and the comp. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
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Naturalism.
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Naturalism. |
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Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.
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Epic poetry, Greek. |
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Metaphysics.
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Metaphysics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Loptson, Peter. Freedom, nature, and world. Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, ©2007 (OCoLC)180689412 |
| ISBN |
9780776617541 (electronic book) |
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0776617540 (electronic book) |
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9780776606620 |
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077660662X |
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