Self, freedom, and transcendence
Subtitle: an introductory philosophy text
By: [compiled] by Sheila McGarry Bruening and William H. Bruening.
Contributors: Bruening, Sheila McGarry.; Bruening, William H., 1943-
Publisher: Ginn Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Needham Heights, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
Subjects: Philosophy -- Introductions; Self (Philosophy); Free will and determinism; Transcendence (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Meditation II / René Descartes; title: Descartes' myth / Gilbert Ryle; title: Descartes' evil genius / O.K. Bouwsma; title: The social origins of the self / George Herbert Mead; title: Of liberty and necessity / David Hume; title: Free will as involving determinism; title: Freedom as rational causality / Immanuel Kant; title: Freedom, action, and responsibility / Jean-Paul Sartre; title: The will to believe / William James; title: The description of religious experience; title: Truth is subjectivity / Soren Kierkegaard; title: Lectures on religious belief / Ludwig Wittgenstein.