... but now seems vulnerable to an ideology of hate that poses a mortal threat. Bush proclaims that only the force of human freedom around the world can break this threat. Bush calls for the United States to lead the worldwide quest for human freedom and liberty as a necessary means to protect America...

... choosing x entails that x cannot occur. God’s being thus universally decisive raises three objections. God lacks a freedom humans sometimes have—the freedom to forbear. God’s decisiveness leaves no room for human freedom. Finally, God is causally responsible for sinful...

... also focuses on a famous construal that recognizes both the reality of evil and the importance of human freedom. Arendt Hannah Auschwitz Bernstein Richard consumerism Enlightenment evil Morrow Lance totalitarianism democracy freedom Frum David Heidegger Martin Perle Richard Rorty Amélie...

... for this. The topic of human freedom frames many of Rousseau's most important innovations. This part begins by focusing on one of these. It is, the part states, the point from which Rousseau's influence on subsequent social thought most clearly arises. Forces forces dunameis Autonomy Besoins needs Contract...

..., however, are resistant to idealization—even more than animals and humans—because they are less prone to obeying the authority of an idea. Kant sees a utopian prefiguration of human freedom in flowers and in aesthetics as a whole. beauty blossom de Saussure Horace Bénédict germination innocence...

... likewise evolved? How natural, in short, a category is society? And is human freedom within societies a product of nature, or a human attempt to deny it? The biologists Auguste Forel, Erich Wasmann, and William Morton Wheeler each grappled with these problems, finding...

... would have been Beckett's first opportunity to study the evolution of the individual psyche and engage the discourse of human freedom and creativity. Beckett Samuel and the Eleatic Paradoxes Berkeley George Berkeley’s Immaterialism Luce ‘Berkeley’s Realism’ McCracken Dream of Fair to Middling Women...

...This chapter presents a reading of Schelling's Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom (1809), which takes up the great philosophical problematic of freedom, a problematic that is rarely mentioned in contemporary philosophical discourse. Taking up the question...

... nature’ representing both the cultivation and the embodiment of human freedom. For Kierkegaard, Christianity, and the love that is at its heart, are corrupted by custom or habit, and so can never become second nature. While Ravaisson asserts that ‘love is augmented by its own expressions’, Kierkegaard...

..., the relation of divine foreknowledge to human freedom. The book presents Latin text with facing-page English translation, introduction and commentary....

... relationships coercion Children of Light and Children of Darkness The family sexuality human freedom guilt gender roles motherhood fatherhood monogamy A close review of Reinhold Niebuhr’s writings on family and society illuminates his larger argument and helps to further Niebuhr studies...

.... The chapter contends that this has narrowed rather than extended human freedom as predicted by the orthodox approach. An urgent need therefore exists to present a radically different interpretation of human flourishing under conditions of economic and social transformation. The orthodox approach views...

... accommodation. Given the central role of religion in human life, unnecessary limitations on its expression are attacks on human freedom itself....

... they are expressions of human freedom, and that universal rather than selfish happiness is valuable because it would be constituted by the satisfaction of a coherent set of freely chosen human ends. Kant Immanuel works of cont Paton Herbert James teleology universal law formula of Kant Immanuel works of suicide...

...; and that Palladius was deeply influenced in his theology by both Origen and his mentor Evagrius, particularly in his understanding of spiritual progress and human freedom. The conclusion suggests that judicial rhetoric may prove useful for the analysis of other works of Christian literature considering...

... and patience Benedict of Nursia Augustinianism 2 Boethius Consolation of Philosophy dialogue ratio intellegentia divine foreknowledge human freedom agency Boethius has a religious problem. In his last and greatest work, The Consolation of Philosophy, the author...

..., and intentions, are also actions predetermined by God. The author examines Calvin’s understanding of divine causality and how it works relative to human action. In the author’s view, Calvin’s understanding of divine causation in predestination has severe consequences for the integrity of human freedom...

...This chapter focuses on the special considerations for Descartes's theory of causation that arise from the various accounts of human freedom that he offered over the course of his philosophical career. The concern throughout is to relate these accounts to different views within scholasticism...

... voluntary action choice desire motion voluntary motion deliberation beatitude happiness virtue ethics moral good will choice moral action civil doctrine human freedom Existing scholarship has shown that the reception of the Ethics in the Latin West was characterized by three...