The paradox of cause and other essays
By: John William Miller.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Philosophy
Description: "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.
Table of contents: title: The paradox of cause.; title: Utopia and the state.; title: Accidents will happen.; title: On the problem of knowledge.; title: Idealism and freedom.; title: History and humanism.; title: Freedom as a characteristic of man in a democratic society.; title: The midworld.; title: Functioning objects, facts, and artifacts.; title: The ahistoric ideal.; title: What does art do?; title: What is art?; title: A meditation on a painting.; title: The scholar as man of the world.