Paradox of Cause and Other Essays

Name: Paradox of Cause and Other Essays
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ISBN: 9780393307313

ISBN-10: 039330731X

ISBN-13: 9780393307313

Edition: N/A

Authors: John William Miller

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They speak to anyone who has been baffled by the old conflict between personal freedom and causal order. More widely, they examine the role of action in the projection of any general order, including the physical. They find history as the career and evolution of self-criticizing and self-correcting action. They reject all "theories" of history, whether as a chaos or an episode in an ahistoric totality. They propose a common source of science and the humanities, of laboratory and the Muses. Key words here are act and action. They contrast with passivity and with the convention that requires us to keep out of our own thought in order to avoid illusion and egotistical pretentiousness.

Book details

List price: $17.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/17/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



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