In the Western tradition, freedom and the human person have been at
the center of philosophical, theological, moral, and political
debates since the origins of this tradition. Although contemporary
discourse betrays the multiplicity of these roots, the necessary
historical perspective for evaluating them is almost always
lacking, even in scholarly studies. The terms ""freedom"" and
""person"" carry such overwhelming force in the modern world that
the critical distance required for grasping what is at stake in
using them is extremely hard to gain. The present collection seeks
to contribute toward finding that distance by making the tradition
of thought more a living reality and not an object of arid
analyses. Unlike most collections the present one transcends
disciplinary boundaries, as it acknowledges the interconnectedness
of philosophical, theological, and political arguments on these
themes. The contributors are prominent authorities in particular
historical periods or in figures in Western thought, and they treat
approaches to freedom and the human person in ancient Greek,
biblical, medieval and modern sources, although the major emphasis
is on the thought of leading philosophers (Plato, Boethius,
Aquinas, Ockham, Machiavelli, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche,
Husserl, et al.). Their essays bring forward profound contrasts in
how freedom and personhood have been grounded and characterized,
notably the contrasts between groundings in natural reason and in
supernatural revelation, between premodern teleological thinking
and modern thinking on self-sovereignty without teleology, and
within modern thought between positions favoring individual
autonomy and others securing freedom and its exercise in communal
or traditional life. Several of the papers shed light on the
relations of freedom and personhood to the human powers of speech,
thought, and judgment. The contributors to the volume are Seth
Benardete, Michael Gillespie, Leon Kass, Robert B. Pippin, Robert
Rethy, John M. Rist, Brian J. Shanley, O. P., Susan Meld Shell,
Robert Sokolowski, Eleonore Stump, Nathan Tarcov, and Michael P.
Zuckert (with Jesse Covington and James Thompson).
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