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Freedom and limits
John Lachs and Patrick Shade
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Frontmatter
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List of Abbreviations (page xi)
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Acknowledgments (page xiii)
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Introduction by Patrick Shade (page 1)
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Prologue: The Personal Value and Social Usefulness of Philosophy (page 17)
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Part I: Mind and Reality
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1 The Impotent Mind (page 35)
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2 Santayana's Philosophy of Mind (page 47)
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3 Fichte's Idealism (page 69)
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4 Peirce, Santayana, and the Large Facts (page 85)
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5 The Transcendence of Materialism and Idealism in American Thought (page 97)
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6 Primitive Naturalism (page 113)
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Part II: Self and Society
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7 Two Views of Happiness in Mill (page 125)
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8 Questions of Life and Death (page 131)
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9 On Selling Organs (page 139)
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10 A Community of Psyches: Santayana on Society (page 145)
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11 The Cost of Community (page 159)
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12 Public Benefit, Private Cost (page 173)
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13 Leaving Others Alone (page 201)
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Part III: Pluralism and Choice-Inclusive Facts
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14 Relativism and Its Benefits (page 219)
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15 The Element of Choice in Criteria of Death (page 231)
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16 Human Natures (page 251)
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17 Persons and Different Kinds of Persons (page 267)
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18 Grand Dreams of Perfect People (page 277)
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19 Philosophical Pluralism (page 287)
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Part IV: Meaningful Living
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20 Th Have and to Be (page 303)
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21 Drugs: The Fallacy of Avoidable Consequences (page 313)
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22 Loving Life (page 319)
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23 Aristotle and Dewey on the Rat Race (page 331)
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24 Improving Life (page 347)
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25 Stoic Pragmatism (page 363)
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26 Pragmatism and Death (page 377)
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Part V: Human Advance and Finite Obligation
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27 The Relevance of Philosophy to Life (page 389)
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28 Both Better Off and Better: Moral Progress Amid Continuing Carnage (page 399)
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29 Education in the Twenty-First Century (with Shirley M. Lachs) (page 413)
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30 Learning About Possibility (page 425)
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31 Moral Holidays (page 435)
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32 Good Enough (page 449)
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Epilogue: Physician Assisted Suicide (page 459)
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Notes (page 475)
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Further Reading (page 485)
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Index (page 495)
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Published: 2014
Publisher: Fordham University Press
- 9780823260966 (ebook)
- 9780823256754 (paper)
- 9780823256747 (hardcover)