Freedom, Nature, and World

By Peter Loptson
Categories: Philosophy
Series: Philosophica
Publisher: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
Paperback : 9780776606620, 344 pages, January 2008
Ebook (PDF) : 9780776617541, 344 pages, January 2008
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780776618272, 344 pages, January 2008

Description

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 complexities of free rational agency within our cultural and historical settings.
Published in English.