Freedom of the Individual: Expanded Edition

by Stuart Hampshire

Book Overview

Stuart Hampshire's essay on human freedom offers an important analysis of concepts surrounding the central idea of intentional action. The author contrasts the powers of animals and of inanimate things; examines the relation between power and action; and distinguishes between two kinds of self-knowledge. Explaining human freedom by means of this distinction, he focuses his attention on self-knowledge gained by introspection. He writes: ...an individual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691072086
• ISBN13: 9780691072081
• Release Date: June 1975
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.