Abolishing Freedom Abolishing Freedom

Abolishing Freedom

A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism

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Beschreibung des Verlags

Pushing back against the contemporary myth that freedom from oppression is freedom of choice, Frank Ruda resuscitates a fundamental lesson from the history of philosophical rationalism: a proper concept of freedom can arise only from a defense of absolute necessity, utter determinism, and predestination.

Abolishing Freedom demonstrates how the greatest philosophers of the rationalist tradition and even their theological predecessors—Luther, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Freud—defended not only freedom but also predestination and divine providence. By systematically investigating this mostly overlooked and seemingly paradoxical fact, Ruda demonstrates how real freedom conceptually presupposes the assumption that the worst has always already happened; in short, fatalism. In this brisk and witty interrogation of freedom, Ruda argues that only rationalist fatalism can cure the contemporary sickness whose paradoxical name today is freedom.
 

GENRE
Sachbücher
ERSCHIENEN
2016
1. Mai
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
210
Seiten
VERLAG
Nebraska
GRÖSSE
795,3
 kB

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