Liberty Worth the Name (eBook)

Locke on Free Agency

Gideon Yaffe (Autor)

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2021
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2398-7 (ISBN)

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This is the first comprehensive interpretation of John Locke's solution to one of philosophy's most enduring problems: free will and the nature of human agency. Many assume that Locke defines freedom as merely the dependency of conduct on our wills. And much contemporary philosophical literature on free agency regards freedom as a form of self-expression in action. Here, Gideon Yaffe shows us that Locke conceived free agency not just as the freedom to express oneself, but as including also the freedom to transcend oneself and act in accordance with "e;the good."e; For Locke, exercising liberty involves making choices guided by what is good, valuable, and important. Thus, Locke's view is part of a tradition that finds freedom in the imitation of God's agency. Locke's free agent is the ideal agent.Yaffe also examines Locke's understanding of volition and voluntary action. For Locke, choices always involve self-consciousness. The kind of self-consciousness to which Locke appeals is intertwined with his conception of personal identity. And it is precisely this connection between the will and personal identity that reveals the special sense in which our voluntary actions can be attributed to us and the special sense in which we are active with respect to them. Deftly written and tightly focused, Liberty Worth the Name will find readers far beyond Locke studies and early modern British philosophy, including scholars interested in free will, action theory, and ethics.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.5.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Schlagworte: addiction • Agency (philosophy) • Akrasia • Alison Simmons • Ambiguity • attributability • autonomous action • awareness • Bramhall, Bishop • Calculation • Causal chain • causal chains, deviant • causal explanation • Causality • Causal overdetermination • causal reasoning • Causal theory • changeling • Cherry Picking • Christian theology • Compatibilism • Compulsion • Concept • Consciousness • Constant conjunction • corpuscularianism • counterexample • Debra Satz • deed • Deliberation • Determination • Determinism • determinism, causal • Direct evidence • Disposition • divine law • Education • egoism • Elijah Millgram • Evaluation • evaluative facts • Exertion • Existence • Explanation • Externality • fallacy • For All Practical Purposes • Fred Dretske • freedom of action • Free Will • Gluttony • God • Good • Good and evil • greatness • Habituation • Happiness • Harry Frankfurt • Hobbeseanism • Identity (philosophy) • Ideology • Imagination • indoctrination • inference • Instance (computer science) • Intention • Involuntary action • Irrationality • John Locke • judgment • language • Mathematics • Mechanism • Mele (Hawaiian language) • Michael Bratman • Misrepresentation • modification • Moral absolutism • Morality • moral responsibility • Motivation • Naturalism • Natural Law • Necessity • negligence • Notion (philosophy) • notions • obstacle • openness • optimism • Our Choice • Pain and pleasure • paralysis • parent • participant • Passion • Patricia Kitcher • Paul Guyer • Personal Identity • Personhood • phenomenon • Philip Kitcher • Philosopher • Philosophy • Philosophy of mind • Pleasure • Princeton University Press • Principle • Project • Proposition • Prudence • Ralph Cudworth • Rationality • Reality • reason • reflection • Relevance • Revelation • rhetorical question • Ricks • Sacrifice • self-awareness • self-consciousness • Self-Interest • Self-Transcendence • Seminar • Substance • Suggestion • Suspension • temptation • Theology • theory • Theory of Justification • Thought • time pressures • Understanding • uneasiness • University of California, Davis • Usage • Value theory • Vere Claiborne Chappell • Volition (psychology) • voluntariness • voluntarism • voluntary action • Watson (computer)
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2398-6 / 1400823986
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2398-7 / 9781400823987