On Experience, Nature, and Freedom
On Experience, Nature, and Freedom

Author: John 1859-1952 Dewey

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9781014168863

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Experience And Education
Experience And Education

Author: John Dewey

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 1416587276

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Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position in educational philosophy), this book demonstrates how Dewey reformulated his ideas as a result of his intervening experience with the progressive schools and in the light of the criticisms his theories had received. Analyzing both "traditional" and "progressive" education, Dr. Dewey here insists that neither the old nor the new education is adequate and that each is miseducative because neither of them applies the principles of a carefully developed philosophy of experience. Many pages of this volume illustrate Dr. Dewey's ideas for a philosophy of experience and its relation to education. He particularly urges that all teachers and educators looking for a new movement in education should think in terms of the deeped and larger issues of education rather than in terms of some divisive "ism" about education, even such an "ism" as "progressivism." His philosophy, here expressed in its most essential, most readable form, predicates an American educational system that respects all sources of experience, on that offers a true learning situation that is both historical and social, both orderly and dynamic.

Freedom and Nature in Schelling's Philosophy of Art
Freedom and Nature in Schelling's Philosophy of Art

Author: Devin Zane Shaw

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2010-12-09

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1441193693

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Schelling is often thought to be a protean thinker whose work is difficult to approach or interpret. Devin Zane Shaw shows that the philosophy of art is the guiding thread to understanding Schelling's philosophical development from his early works in 1795-1796 through his theological turn in 1809-1810. Schelling's philosophy of art is the 'keystone' of the system; it unifies his idea of freedom and his philosophy of nature. Schelling's idea of freedom is developed through a critique of the formalism of Kant's and Fichte's practical philosophies, and his nature-philosophy is developed to show how subjectivity and objectivity emerge from a common source in nature. The philosophy of art plays a dual role in the system. First, Schelling argues that artistic activity produces through the artwork a sensible realization of the ideas of philosophy. Second, he argues that artistic production creates the possibility of a new mythology that can overcome the socio-political divisions that structure the relationships between individuals and society. Shaw's careful analysis shows how art, for Schelling, is the highest expression of human freedom.

Kant's System of Nature and Freedom
Kant's System of Nature and Freedom

Author: Paul Guyer

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005-04-21

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0199273464

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The governing theme of this volume is the role of systematicity in Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy. Kant's System of Nature and Freedom will be essential for anyone working on the history of modern philosophy and related areas of ethics, philosophy of science, and metaphysics.

A Companion to Ricoeur's Freedom and Nature
A Companion to Ricoeur's Freedom and Nature

Author: Scott Davidson

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-06-13

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1498578896

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Paul Ricoeur’s first book, Freedom and Nature, introduces many themes that resurface in various ways throughout his later work, but its significance has been mostly overlooked in the field of Ricoeur studies. Gathering together an international group of scholars, A Companion to Freedom and Nature is the first book-length study to focus exclusively on Freedom and Nature. It helps readers to understand this complex work by providing careful textual analysis of specific arguments in the book and by situating them in relation to Ricoeur’s early influences, including Merleau-Ponty, Nabert, and Ravaisson. But most importantly, this book demonstrates that Freedom and Nature remains a compelling and vital resource for readers today, precisely because it resonates with recent developments in the areas of embodied cognition, philosophical psychology, and philosophy of the will. Freedom and Nature is fundamentally a book about embodiment, and it situates the human body at the crossroads of activity and passivity, motivation and causation, the voluntary and the involuntary. This conception of the body informs Ricoeur’s unique treatment of topics such as effort, habit, and attention that are of much interest to scholars today. Together the chapters of this book provide a renewed appreciation of this important and innovative work.

Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy
Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy

Author: Ken Gemes

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2009-05-07

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0199231567

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Nietzsche is a central figure in our modern understanding of the individual as freely determining his or her own values. These essays by leading Nietzsche scholars investigate what this freedom really means: How free are we really? What does it take to be free? It might be a 'right', but it also needs to be earned.

Freedom is Your Nature
Freedom is Your Nature

Author: Christine Wushke

Publisher:

Published: 2013-10

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780988964211

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This is an extraordinary new and important work on the inner journey written by Christine Wushke, a woman whose life has seen a series of classical spiritual encounters and experiences. In these pages, she shares with us her amazing revelations, their intoxicating sweetness, and their life-giving fruit. But the book is more than just the fascinating story of Christine's own spiritual growth, for it unfolds for the reader a renewed understanding of life in general, accompanied by practical exercises that anyone can use to begin to change their own inner landscape - and with it - their outer world. Using parables, stories, experiences, and insights from her meditations, she takes the reader on a double-decker journey: both hers and their own.

Freedom and Nature
Freedom and Nature

Author: Paul Ricoeur

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 9780810105348

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This volume, the first part of Paul Ricoeur's Philosophy of the Will, is an eidetics, carried out within carefully imposed phenomenological brackets. It seeks to deal with the essential structure of man's being in the world, and so it suspends the distorting dimensions of existence, the bondage of passion, and the vision of innocence, to which Ricoeur returns in his later writings. The result is a conception of man as an incarnate Cogito, which can make the polar unity of subject and object intelligible and provide a basic continuity for the various aspects of inquiry into man's being-in-the-world.

Images of History
Images of History

Author: Richard Eldridge

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-12

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0190847360

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Human subjects are both formed by historical inheritances and capable of active criticism. Insisting on this fact, Kant and Benjamin each develop powerful, systematic, but sharply opposed accounts of human powers and interests in freedom. A persistent constitutive tension between Kantian and Benjaminan ideals is woven through human life. By examining the two philosophers through this volume, Richard Eldridge attempts to make better sense of the commitment forming, commitment revising, anxious, reflective and acculturated human subjects we are.