FREE WILL, An historical and philosophical introduction
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0–415–20055–5
ROUTLEDGE NEWYORK LONDON
2001
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loginThis book is concerned with sixteen thinkers of the Western world who havehad something to say about that condition of human existence in whichhuman beings are in bondage: what it means, whether it is in any senseinevitable and, if it is, how one can turn away from it and move towardsgreater autonomy and freedom. What is free will and in what way is itdistinctive of and grounded in human existence? The thinkers in questionthus are (i) those who have had something to say about human life, whatpeople have to contend with in it, their capacities and weaknesses, and (ii)those who have had some light to shed on the concepts in terms of which wetry to understand these things and some of the problems they raise for us whenwe think about them.
