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Liberation and passion: reconstructing the passion perspective on human being and freedom


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Coeckelbergh, Mark (2002) Liberation and passion: reconstructing the passion perspective on human being and freedom. DenkMal Verlag. ISBN 9783935404068

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Abstract:Many contemporary philosophers tell us that we are essentially purposeful, independent, willing, and acting beings. The self is presented as a citadel defending itself against external, alien influences. Alternatively, some argue that we are the sum of a determined body and a free will. Are we really like that? And is personal liberation basically a matter of enhancing our capacity to will, to act, and to control ourselves? Is freedom necessarily a question of will and action?

This book searches for alternative perspectives on human being and freedom, highlighting a different side of ourselves: openness, receptivity, dependency, being-in-relation. By articulating these aspects in the work of some key Western thinkers, including Euripides, Augustine, Eckhart, Dostoevski, and Heidegger, the author explores a different view of what liberation is and what it would be like to be free
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Link to this item:http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/76150
Official URL:http://www.denkmal-verlag.de/buecher.php?cat=7
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