Abolishing Freedom: A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism

by Frank Ruda

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0803284373

ISBN13:9780803284371

Release Date:May 2016

Publisher:University of Nebraska Press

Length:210 Pages

Weight:0.50 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"

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Philosophy

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