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Freedom from Reality : The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Catholic Ideas for a Secular World SeriesPublisher: Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (497 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780268102630
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Freedom from RealityDDC classification:
  • 123/.5
LOC classification:
  • B105.L45 .S356 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What Is Good? -- Part I. John Locke and the Dialectic of Power -- 1 Locke's (Re-)Conception of Freedom -- 2 The Political Conquest of the Good in the Second Treatise -- Part II. Modern Liberty as a Flight from the Real -- 3 The Basic Shape of Modern Liberty -- 4 Symbolical Order and Diabolical Subversion -- 5 A "Society of Devils" -- Part III. Retrieving the Origin as the Essence of Freedom -- 6 Starting Over and Starting After:A First Foundation in Plato and Aristotle -- 7 Plato: The Golden Thread of Freedom -- 8 Aristotle: Freedom as Liberality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: presents a critique of the deceptive and ultimately self-subverting character of the modern notion of freedom, retrieving an alternative view through a new interpretation of the ancient tradition.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What Is Good? -- Part I. John Locke and the Dialectic of Power -- 1 Locke's (Re-)Conception of Freedom -- 2 The Political Conquest of the Good in the Second Treatise -- Part II. Modern Liberty as a Flight from the Real -- 3 The Basic Shape of Modern Liberty -- 4 Symbolical Order and Diabolical Subversion -- 5 A "Society of Devils" -- Part III. Retrieving the Origin as the Essence of Freedom -- 6 Starting Over and Starting After:A First Foundation in Plato and Aristotle -- 7 Plato: The Golden Thread of Freedom -- 8 Aristotle: Freedom as Liberality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

presents a critique of the deceptive and ultimately self-subverting character of the modern notion of freedom, retrieving an alternative view through a new interpretation of the ancient tradition.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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