04589nam 2200901 450 991078937440332120211005042353.00-8232-5675-80-8232-5793-20-8232-6096-80-8232-5676-610.1515/9780823257935(CKB)3710000000094274(EBL)3239879(SSID)ssj0001136031(PQKBManifestationID)12483328(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001136031(PQKBWorkID)11122589(PQKB)10790646(StDuBDS)EDZ0000862573(MiAaPQ)EBC3239879(DE-B1597)555281(DE-B1597)9780823257935(OCoLC)878144574(MdBmJHUP)muse58915(MiAaPQ)EBC1647170(Au-PeEL)EBL3239879(CaPaEBR)ebr10852123(CaONFJC)MIL727822(OCoLC)923764189(MiAaPQ)EBC4704876(Au-PeEL)EBL1647170(OCoLC)892698934(dli)HEB32074(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000028(EXLCZ)99371000000009427420140331h20142014 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrFreedom and limits /John Lachs ; edited by Patrick ShadeFirst edition.New York :Fordham University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (520 p.)American PhilosophyDescription based upon print version of record.1-322-96540-4 0-8232-5674-X Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-494) and index.Front matter --Contents --List of Abbreviations --Acknowledgments --Introduction --Prologue --1 The Impotent Mind --2 Santayana’s Philosophy of Mind --3 Fichte’s Idealism --4 Peirce, Santayana, and the Large Facts --5 The Transcendence of Materialism and Idealism in American Thought --6 Primitive Naturalism --7 Two Views of Happiness in Mill --8 Questions of Life and Death --9 On Selling Organs --10 A Community of Psyches --11 The Cost of Community --12 Public Benefit, Private Cost --13 Leaving Others Alone --14 Relativism and Its Benefits --15 The Element of Choice in Criteria of Death --16 Human Natures --17 Persons and Different Kinds of Persons --18 Grand Dreams of Perfect People --19 Philosophical Pluralism --20 To Have and to Be --21 Drugs: The Fallacy of Avoidable Consequences --22 Loving Life --23 Aristotle and Dewey on the Rat Race --24 Improving Life --25 Stoic Pragmatism --26 Pragmatism and Death --27 The Relevance of Philosophy to Life --28 Both Better Off and Better --29 Education in the Twenty- First Century (with Shirley M. Lachs) --30 Learning About Possibility --31 Moral Holidays --32 Good Enough --Epilogue --Notes --Further Reading --IndexFreedom and Limits is a defense of the value of freedom in the context of human finitude. A contribution to the American tradition of philosophy, it focuses attention on moral problems as we encounter them in daily life, where the search for perfection and the incessant drive to meet obligations make it difficult to attain satisfaction. The book argues that uniformity is unproductive: Human natures are varied and changeable, making the effort to impose a unitary good on everyone futile. Moreover, we don’t need to strive for more than what is good enough: Finite achievements should be adequate to satisfy finite people. The ultimate aim of the book is to reclaim the role of philosophy as a guide to life. In doing so, it presents discussions of such important philosophers as Fichte, Hegel, Peirce, Dewey, James, and, above all, Santayana.American philosophy.PhilosophyLifeHuman natures.Santayana.choice inclusive facts.finitude.freedom.good enough.infinite obligations.progress.satisfaction.Philosophy.Life.128Lachs John186310Shade Patrick1965-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789374403321Freedom and limits2316786UNINA