Freedom and Limits (American Philosophy) 1st Edition by John Lachs (PDF)

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Freedom and Limits is a defense of the value of freedom in the context of human finitude. A contribution to the American tradition of philosophy, it focuses attention on moral problems as we encounter them in daily life, where the search for perfection and the incessant drive to meet obligations make it difficult to attain satisfaction. The book argues that uniformity is unproductive: Human natures are varied and changeable, making the effort to impose a unitary good on everyone futile. Moreover, we don’t need to strive for more than what is good enough: Finite achievements should be adequate to satisfy finite people.The ultimate aim of the book is to reclaim the role of philosophy as a guide to life. In doing so, it presents discussions of such important philosophers as Fichte, Hegel, Peirce, Dewey, James, and, above all, Santayana.

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⭐I met John Lachs when I was an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University. After graduating, I sorely missed his classes. He is a profoundly joyful person who nevertheless acknowledges the many challenges that life brings. You’ll find in his writings, as I am reading again now in this book, that he both identifies troubling sources of social problems as well as either the best way to change what we can or the wisest ways to accept what we cannot change. He is an advocate for freedom and the individual, but he rejects narrow-minded or shallow ideologies. He’s a sharp thinker who is at once humane and kind and also inspirational, motivating one to aspire to virtue. Lachs’s thought, well represented in this volume, stretches from contributions to long-standing debates about the nature of the mind, reality, and humanity to very current and practical problems of our day, such as on the controversial topics of selling organs or of life and death decision-making. My favorite pieces typically concern his social philosophy on the topics of the intermediation of people and what to do about it, as well as of what he calls stoic pragmatism – the way to remain optimistic and energetic yet ready to accept what is out of our control. Editor Patrick Shade has done a great job putting this work together and introducing it for the reader.

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