Freedom and the human person [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Richard Velkley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910818298803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2007
• ISBN: 0-8132-2101-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Collana: Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; ; v. 48
• Altri autori (Persone): VelkleyRichard L
• Disciplina: 123/.5
• Soggetti: Liberty
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-258) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Freedom : grace and necessity / Seth Benardete -- The follies of freedom and reason : an old story / Leon Kass -- Freedom, responsibility, and truth / Robert Sokolowski -- Freedom and would-be persons / John M. Rist -- Beyond libertarianism and compatibilism : Thomas Aquinas on created freedom / Brian J. Shanley -- Justifying faith : grace and free will / Eleonore Stump -- Sovereign states and sovereign individuals : the question of political theory / Michael Allen Gillespie -- Freedom, republics, and peoples in Machiavelli's prince / Nathan Tarcov -- John Locke : toward a politics of liberty / Michael P. Zuckert, Jesse Covington, and James Thompson -- Freedom and faith within the boundaries of bare reason / Susan Meld Shell -- On giving oneself the law / Robert B. Pippin -- Slaves, masters, tyrants : Nietzsche's concept of freedom / Robert Rethy.