Product Description: JOHN WISDOM AND THE BREADTH OF PHILOSOPHY hham Dhman 1. THE ESSAYS IN THIS VOLUME The essays following the two pieces by John Wisdom have all been written by philosophers who are former students or friends of Wisdom or who have a high regard for his work...read more

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What is the place of human free will in our lives if all our actions are the result of some other cause? Does our processing unconscious beliefs or desires make us less free? Is our free will necessarily restricted if we do not choose our own beliefs? The debate between free will and its opposing doctrine, determinism, is one of the key issues in philosophy. Free Will: An historical and philosophical introduction provides a comprehensive introduction to this highly important question and examines the contributions made by sixteen of the most outstanding thinkers from the time of early Greece to the twentieth century:*Homer *Sophocles *Platto *Aristotle *St Augustine *St Thomas Aquinas *Descaartes *Spinoza *Hume *Kant *Schopehauer *Freud *Sartre *Weil *Wittgenstein *Moore Ilham Dilman brings together all the dimensions of the problem of free will with examples from literature, ethics and psychoanalysis. Drawing out valuable insights from both sides of the free will-determinism divide, and he provides an accessible and highly readable introduction to this perennial problem.

Product Description: If there is an inherent connection between love and generosity, between love and creativeness, as this book argues there is, then how can love itself be selfish, destructive and tyrannical? Concerned with questions about love in its different forms, this book seeks and discusses the views of writers--Plato, Proust, Sartre, Freud, D...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Writing clearly and avoiding jargon, Dilman investigates Wittgenstein's understanding of the relation between language and reality - i.e. between "the realities" we refer to, speak about and try to understand. discusses this topic in depth and at the same time covers a broad ground...read more

Product Description: This book is a discussion of Heidegger's, Sartre's and Marcel's rejection of Cartesian epistemology, the scepticism to which it leads and its objectivist conception of human existence. It compares this rejection with Wittgenstein's rejection of these conceptions of man, his relation to the knowledge of what belongs to the world in which he lives...read more

Product Description: The book is a discussion of Socrates' conception of philosophy in the "Phaedo" as a astruggle both to understand our relation to what we know through our reason and the senses and to live a life in which spiritual truth will triumph over the self...read more

Product Description: A cornerstone of Freudian psychoanalytic theory and practice is the provision of insight into the unconscious and, therefore, to change. This book examines and evaluates this principle. The first three chapters assess questions of mental illness and neurosis: are these medical notions? What is a "nervous illness"? Is it related to human personality and if so what does it mean to talk of its treatment? The author then goes on to look at the role of interlocutor in psychoanalysis...read more

Product Description: A sequel to "Freud and Human Nature", this book is a full-scale philosophical treatment of Freud's conception of the mind and of the limits of the individual's autonomy.

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Analyzes Sigmund Freud's theories concerning the development of sexuality and examines the influence of society on human behavior