Free Will and IllusionOUP Oxford, 30 במרץ 2000 - 344 עמודים Saul Smilansky presents an original treatment of the problem of free will, which lies at the heart of morality and human self-understanding. He maintains that we have most of the resources we need for a proper understanding of the problem; and the key to it is the role played by illusion. The major traditional philosophical approaches are inadequate, Smilansky argues: their partial insights need to be integrated into a hybrid view, which he calls Fundamental Dualism. Common views about justice, responsibility, human worth, and related notions are radically misguided, and the absurd looms large. We do, however, find some justification for enlightened moral views, and grounding for some of our most cherished views of human nature. The bold and perhaps disturbing claim of Free Will and Illusion is that we could not live adequately with a complete awareness of the truth about human freedom: illusion lies at the centre of the human condition. The necessity of illusion is seen to follow from the basic elements of the free will issue, helping keep our moral and psychological worlds intact. Smilansky offers the challenge of recognizing the centrality of illusion and trying to free ourselves to some extent from it; this is not only a philosophical challenge, but a moral and psychological one as well. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 80
עמוד 1
... role of illusion in the free will problem , a problem at the heart of morality and human self - understanding . Understanding the role of illusion , I claim , is the key to the free will problem . Within our lives , insofar as they are ...
... role of illusion in the free will problem , a problem at the heart of morality and human self - understanding . Understanding the role of illusion , I claim , is the key to the free will problem . Within our lives , insofar as they are ...
עמוד 6
... illusion often has a large and positive role to play in the free will issue . The importance of illusion is seen to flow from the basic structure of the free will problem . It flows indirectly , from the Fundamental Dualism of the ...
... illusion often has a large and positive role to play in the free will issue . The importance of illusion is seen to flow from the basic structure of the free will problem . It flows indirectly , from the Fundamental Dualism of the ...
עמוד 7
... role of illusion . This position has various implications . Chapter 10 considers the more posi- tive ones , including a number of rather surprising benefits of the belief in hard determinism and of the crucial role of illusion in our ...
... role of illusion . This position has various implications . Chapter 10 considers the more posi- tive ones , including a number of rather surprising benefits of the belief in hard determinism and of the crucial role of illusion in our ...
עמוד 17
... importance of ' up to usness ' makes it a vital consideration for being properly blamed : something so important as ... Position and the Extreme Position The Moderate Position will insist that within the scope of matters inher- ently ...
... importance of ' up to usness ' makes it a vital consideration for being properly blamed : something so important as ... Position and the Extreme Position The Moderate Position will insist that within the scope of matters inher- ently ...
עמוד 18
... Position on the role of the Core Conception . According to this there is something in some sense unjust in any ' beyond baseline'3 state of people which is not connected to their free deeds and which , to that extent , falls on them ...
... Position on the role of the Core Conception . According to this there is something in some sense unjust in any ' beyond baseline'3 state of people which is not connected to their free deeds and which , to that extent , falls on them ...
תוכן
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Why Not Compatibilism? | 40 |
Why Not Libertarian Free Will? | 56 |
Why Not Hard Determinism? | 74 |
The Fundamental Dualism | 94 |
THE ROLE OF ILLUSION | 143 |
Why Not ReactiveNaturalism? | 220 |
Some Further Benefits | 234 |
Some Additional Problems | 256 |
Conclusion | 283 |
References | 297 |
Glossary | 311 |
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absence of libertarian actions basic beliefs bilist blame blameworthy central Chapter choice claim Community of Responsibility compati compatibilist distinctions compatibilist free compatibilist level compatibilist perspective compatibilist terms Compatibility Question concern conclusions consequentialist considered control compatibilism control compatibilist Core Conception crucial danger Derek Parfit Dissonance Problem distributive justice egalitarian ethical existence free will issue free will problem free will-related freedom Fundamental Dualism Galen Strawson hard deter hard determinism hard determinist perspective hence honesty human idea importance of illusion injustice innocent Insufficiency Problem intuitions Isaiah Berlin lack libertarian free lives luck Martha Klein matters moral responsibility moral worth motivation nature notion one's ourselves Oxford people's philosophical position possible practice punishment reactive attitudes reason relevant respect for persons retributive retributive justice role of illusion self-deception self-respect sense situation social Strawson tarian tion truth ultimate level ultimate perspective ultimate-level unillusioned University Press utilitarianism