TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yaffe,Gideon
TI  - Liberty Worth the Name: Locke on Free Agency 
T2  - Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
SN  - 9781400823987
AV  - B1298.F73 
U1  - 123/.5/092 22
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Free will and determinism
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Bramhall, Bishop
KW  - Hobbeseanism
KW  - addiction
KW  - attributability
KW  - awareness
KW  - causal chains, deviant
KW  - causal explanation
KW  - causal overdetermination
KW  - changeling
KW  - compatibilism
KW  - compulsion
KW  - corpuscularianism
KW  - deliberation
KW  - determinism, causal
KW  - education
KW  - egoism
KW  - evaluation
KW  - evaluative facts
KW  - freedom of action
KW  - good
KW  - habituation
KW  - happiness
KW  - imagination
KW  - indoctrination
KW  - intention
KW  - judgment
KW  - language
KW  - mathematics
KW  - mechanism
KW  - modification
KW  - motivation
KW  - natural law
KW  - naturalism
KW  - necessity
KW  - negligence
KW  - notions
KW  - openness
KW  - paralysis
KW  - passion
KW  - personal identity
KW  - pleasure
KW  - rationality
KW  - reflection
KW  - revelation
KW  - sacrifice
KW  - self-consciousness
KW  - substance
KW  - suspension
KW  - temptation
KW  - theology
KW  - time pressures
KW  - uneasiness
KW  - voluntariness
KW  - voluntarism
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1 A Second Perfection --; 2 Volition and Voluntary Action --; 3 Free Agency and Personal Identity --; CONCLUSION --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Qeneral Index --; Index Locorum; restricted access
N2  - This is the first comprehensive interpretation of John Locke's solution to one of philosophy's most enduring problems: free will and the nature of human agency. Many assume that Locke defines freedom as merely the dependency of conduct on our wills. And much contemporary philosophical literature on free agency regards freedom as a form of self-expression in action. Here, Gideon Yaffe shows us that Locke conceived free agency not just as the freedom to express oneself, but as including also the freedom to transcend oneself and act in accordance with "the good." For Locke, exercising liberty involves making choices guided by what is good, valuable, and important. Thus, Locke's view is part of a tradition that finds freedom in the imitation of God's agency. Locke's free agent is the ideal agent.Yaffe also examines Locke's understanding of volition and voluntary action. For Locke, choices always involve self-consciousness. The kind of self-consciousness to which Locke appeals is intertwined with his conception of personal identity. And it is precisely this connection between the will and personal identity that reveals the special sense in which our voluntary actions can be attributed to us and the special sense in which we are active with respect to them. Deftly written and tightly focused, Liberty Worth the Name will find readers far beyond Locke studies and early modern British philosophy, including scholars interested in free will, action theory, and ethics
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400823987?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400823987
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400823987/original
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