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Abolishing Freedom

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Abolishing Freedom

By Frank Ruda

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About the book

Pushing back against the contemporary myth that freedom from oppression is freedom of choice, Frank Ruda resuscitates a fundamental lesson from the history of philosophical rationalism: a proper concept of freedom can arise only from a defense of absolute necessity, utter determinism, and predestination.Abolishing Freedom demonstrates how the greatest philosophers of the rationalist tradition and even their theological predecessors-Luther, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Freud-defended not only freedom ...Show more

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9780803284371

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University of Nebraska Press

Published year

2016

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1

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Abolishing Freedom

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