Abolishing Freedom: A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism

by Frank Ruda

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803284373
• ISBN13: 9780803284371
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"