LEADER 04271nam 2200781 450 001 9910464405903321 005 20211005042353.0 010 $a0-8232-5675-8 010 $a0-8232-5793-2 010 $a0-8232-6096-8 010 $a0-8232-5676-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823257935 035 $a(CKB)3710000000094274 035 $a(EBL)3239879 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001136031 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12483328 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001136031 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11122589 035 $a(PQKB)10790646 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000862573 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239879 035 $a(DE-B1597)555281 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823257935 035 $a(OCoLC)878144574 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58915 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1647170 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239879 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10852123 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL727822 035 $a(OCoLC)923764189 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4704876 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1647170 035 $a(OCoLC)892698934 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000094274 100 $a20140331h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFreedom and limits /$fJohn Lachs ; edited by Patrick Shade 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (520 p.) 225 1 $aAmerican Philosophy 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-96540-4 311 $a0-8232-5674-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 485-494) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Abbreviations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tPrologue --$t1 The Impotent Mind --$t2 Santayana?s Philosophy of Mind --$t3 Fichte?s Idealism --$t4 Peirce, Santayana, and the Large Facts --$t5 The Transcendence of Materialism and Idealism in American Thought --$t6 Primitive Naturalism --$t7 Two Views of Happiness in Mill --$t8 Questions of Life and Death --$t9 On Selling Organs --$t10 A Community of Psyches --$t11 The Cost of Community --$t12 Public Benefit, Private Cost --$t13 Leaving Others Alone --$t14 Relativism and Its Benefits --$t15 The Element of Choice in Criteria of Death --$t16 Human Natures --$t17 Persons and Different Kinds of Persons --$t18 Grand Dreams of Perfect People --$t19 Philosophical Pluralism --$t20 To Have and to Be --$t21 Drugs: The Fallacy of Avoidable Consequences --$t22 Loving Life --$t23 Aristotle and Dewey on the Rat Race --$t24 Improving Life --$t25 Stoic Pragmatism --$t26 Pragmatism and Death --$t27 The Relevance of Philosophy to Life --$t28 Both Better Off and Better --$t29 Education in the Twenty- First Century (with Shirley M. Lachs) --$t30 Learning About Possibility --$t31 Moral Holidays --$t32 Good Enough --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tFurther Reading --$tIndex 330 $aFreedom and Limits is a defense of the value of freedom in the context of human finitude. A contribution to the American tradition of philosophy, it focuses attention on moral problems as we encounter them in daily life, where the search for perfection and the incessant drive to meet obligations make it difficult to attain satisfaction. The book argues that uniformity is unproductive: Human natures are varied and changeable, making the effort to impose a unitary good on everyone futile. Moreover, we don?t need to strive for more than what is good enough: Finite achievements should be adequate to satisfy finite people. The ultimate aim of the book is to reclaim the role of philosophy as a guide to life. In doing so, it presents discussions of such important philosophers as Fichte, Hegel, Peirce, Dewey, James, and, above all, Santayana. 410 0$aAmerican philosophy. 606 $aPhilosophy 606 $aLife 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPhilosophy. 615 0$aLife. 676 $a128 700 $aLachs$b John$0186310 702 $aShade$b Patrick$f1965- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464405903321 996 $aFreedom and limits$92316786 997 $aUNINA