Freedom and responsibility in the COVID debate

This paper argues the thesis that education should be understood as a guide that directs the young people towards reflexive and imaginative social practices that allow them to formulate new and varied hypotheses as well as alternative justifications. Based on Dewey, we will expose that a goal such as this is only applicable to members of a democratic society. Next, we present some features of onto-epistemological pluralism in relation to freedom and responsibility. It is concluded that there is no justification that is closer to truth or reality. The relevance of a justified belief with good reasons lies in its practical consequences for specific conditions of existence.

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The Problem of Enhanced Control

10.1093/oso/9780190682781.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Christopher Evan Franklin

Keyword(s):

Causal Power ◽

Self Control ◽

Essential Difference ◽

Freedom And Responsibility

dAccording to the problem of enhanced control, while indeterminism may not diminish control, it does not enhance control, and thus indeterminism is superfluous to freedom and responsibility. It is often thought that the problem of enhanced control is a problem only, or at least especially, for event-causal libertarians. The idea is that whereas agent-causal libertarianism differs from compatibilism in requiring that free agents possess the agent-causal power, the only essential difference between event-causal libertarianism and compatibilism is that the former requires the presence of indeterminism. It is first argued that the problem of enhanced control, if a problem for event-causal libertarians, is just as much a problem for agent-causal libertarians. It is then argued that minimal event-causal libertarianism secures enhanced control vis-à-vis compatibilism because it accords agents the opportunity to exercise their abilities of reflective self-control in more than one way.

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Freedom and Responsibility in Neoplatonist Thought

10.1093/oso/9780198824831.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ursula Coope

Keyword(s):

First Principle ◽

Human Beings ◽

Human Soul ◽

The One ◽

Freedom And Responsibility

The Neoplatonists have a perfectionist view of freedom: an entity is free to the extent that it succeeds in making itself good. Free entities are wholly in control of themselves: they are self-determining, self-constituting, and self-knowing. Neoplatonist philosophers argue that such freedom is only possible for nonbodily things. The human soul is free insofar as it rises above bodily things and engages in intellection, but when it turns its desires to bodily things, it is drawn under the sway of fate and becomes enslaved. This book discusses this notion of freedom, and its relation to questions about responsibility. It explains the important role of notions of self-reflexivity in Neoplatonist accounts of both freedom and responsibility. Part I sets out the puzzles Neoplatonist philosophers face about freedom and responsibility and explains how these puzzles arise from earlier discussions. Part II looks at the metaphysical underpinnings of the Neoplatonist notion of freedom (concentrating especially on the views of Plotinus and Proclus). In what sense (if any) is the ultimate first principle of everything (the One) free? If everything else is under this ultimate first principle, how can anything other than the One be free? What is the connection between freedom and nonbodiliness? Part III looks at questions about responsibility, arising from this perfectionist view of freedom. Why are human beings responsible for their behaviour, in a way that other animals are not? If we are enslaved when we act viciously, how can we be to blame for our vicious actions and choices?

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A Life Deliberately Lived: An Existential Portrait of Authenticity, Freedom, and Responsibility in Counseling

The Journal of Humanistic Counseling ◽

10.1002/johc.12147 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 60 (1) ◽

pp. 2-5

Author(s):

Alfredo F. Palacios

Keyword(s):

Freedom And Responsibility

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Theory, explanation, and understanding in management research

BRQ Business Research Quarterly ◽

10.1177/23409444211012414 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 234094442110124

Author(s):

Jean-Etienne Joullié ◽

Anthony M. Gould

Keyword(s):

Natural Science ◽

Scientific Explanation ◽

Management Practice ◽

Jel Classification ◽

Management Theory ◽

Management Research ◽

Application Management ◽

Central Focus ◽

Critical Understanding ◽

Freedom And Responsibility

Theory production has been a central focus of management research for decades, mostly because theory legitimizes both management research and, through its application, management practice as professional endeavors. However, such an emphasis on theory glosses over one of its constraining and particularized roles in scientific explanation, namely that theory codifies predictive knowledge. Committing to theory a ‘traditional’ or ‘critical’ understanding of theory, thus amounts to embracing the view that prediction is achievable within a circumscribed field of study. Such an embrace is non-controversial in natural science. However, within the realm of management studies, it necessitates and smuggles in a strawman view of human existence, one which does not accommodate freedom and responsibility. This limitation of management theory explains its inadequate utility. This article argues that alternative avenues for management research exist. JEL CLASSIFICATION: M10

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Themes in a Therapeutic Community

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.117.539.389 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 117 (539) ◽

pp. 389-395 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

David H. Clark ◽

Kenneth Myers

Keyword(s):

Therapeutic Community ◽

Social Analysis ◽

Small Unit ◽

Face To Face ◽

Community Approach ◽

Increased Activity ◽

Freedom And Responsibility

Introduction The therapeutic community method of treatment was developed by Maxwell Jones at Belmont Hospital (Jones et al., 1952; Jones, 1954; Rapoport, 1960) for the treatment of psychopathic personalities. The method has been applied to an admission unit by Wilmer (1958) and to psychopathic personalities by Craft (1965). Clark (1964) has differentiated between ‘the therapeutic community approach’, of increased activity, freedom and responsibility for all patients in the hospital, and the ‘therapeutic community proper’, the small unit with face-to-face gatherings of all members, social analysis of events, opening of communications, flattening of the authority pyramid and blurring of roles.

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AEJ Officers Favor Senate Bill, Recommend Important Changes in Statement to Subcommittee

The Journalism Educator ◽

10.1177/107769587102600403 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 9-12

Keyword(s):

Constitutional Rights ◽

University Of Minnesota ◽

Past President ◽

University Of Texas ◽

University Of Wisconsin ◽

The Press ◽

Professional Freedom ◽

Senate Bill ◽

President Elect ◽

Freedom And Responsibility

Sen. Sam. J. Ervin Jr., chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, invited AEJ to submit a statement in connection with subcommittee hearings in the fall of 1971 on the state of freedom of the press. AEJ President Hillier Krieghbaum and five other officers responded in writing to the “newsmen's privilege bill,” S. 1311, which had been referred to the subcommittee. The other officers were R. Neale Copple, University of Nebraska, president-elect; Wayne A. Danielson, University of Texas, past president; J. Edward Gerald, University of Minnesota, past president; Dwight L. Teeter Jr., University of Wisconsin, chairman of the AEJ Committee on Professional Freedom and Responsibility; and Harold L. Nelson, University of Wisconsin, past president. Their statement is printed below.

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