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Freedom of the Individual : Expanded Edition / Stuart Hampshire.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1819Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1975Edition: ExpandedDescription: 1 online resource (144 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691617985
  • 9781400868520
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 123.5
LOC classification:
  • BJ1461 -- H27 1975eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION -- Chapter 1. TWO KINDS OF POSSIBILITY -- Chapter 2. DESIRE -- Chapter 3. TWO KINDS OF KNOWLEDGE -- Chapter 4. CONCLUSION -- Chapter 5. DETERMINISM AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLANATION: A POSTSCRIPT
Summary: Stuart Hampshire's essay on human freedom offers an important analysis of concepts surrounding the central idea of intentional action. The author contrasts the powers of animals and of inanimate things; examines the relation between power and action; and distinguishes between two kinds of self-knowledge. Explaining human freedom by means of this distinction, he focuses his attention on self-knowledge gained by introspection. He writes: ".an individual who acquires more systematic knowledge of the causes of states of mind, emotion, and desires, insofar as these are not the outcome of his decision, thereby becomes more free than he previously was to control and direct his own life:.there will in general be a closer correlation between that which he sets himself to do and that which he actually achieves in his life."In a postscript on determinism and psychological explanation, the author provides a detailed account of some of the ways in which explanation of states of mind differs from explanation of physical states.Originally published in 1975.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION -- Chapter 1. TWO KINDS OF POSSIBILITY -- Chapter 2. DESIRE -- Chapter 3. TWO KINDS OF KNOWLEDGE -- Chapter 4. CONCLUSION -- Chapter 5. DETERMINISM AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLANATION: A POSTSCRIPT

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Stuart Hampshire's essay on human freedom offers an important analysis of concepts surrounding the central idea of intentional action. The author contrasts the powers of animals and of inanimate things; examines the relation between power and action; and distinguishes between two kinds of self-knowledge. Explaining human freedom by means of this distinction, he focuses his attention on self-knowledge gained by introspection. He writes: ".an individual who acquires more systematic knowledge of the causes of states of mind, emotion, and desires, insofar as these are not the outcome of his decision, thereby becomes more free than he previously was to control and direct his own life:.there will in general be a closer correlation between that which he sets himself to do and that which he actually achieves in his life."In a postscript on determinism and psychological explanation, the author provides a detailed account of some of the ways in which explanation of states of mind differs from explanation of physical states.Originally published in 1975.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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