Title: The paradox of cause and other essays /
Authors: Miller, John William.
Publisher: Norton,
Year: 1978
Subjects: Philosophy.
Abstract: "These essays, deceptively modest in phrasing, address current and historic issues. They speak to anyone who has been baffled by the old conflict between personal freedom and casual order. More widely, they examine the role of action in the projection of any general order, including the physical."--Inside jacket.
Contents: The paradox of cause.--Utopia and the state.--Accidents will happen.--On the problem of knowledge.--Idealism and freedom.--History and humanism.--Freedom as a characteristic of man in a democratic society.--The midworld.--Functioning objects, facts, and artifacts.--The Ahistoric ideal.--What does art do?--A meditation on a painting.--The scholar as man of the world.