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This is the first comprehensive interpretation of John Locke's solution to one of philosophy's most enduring problems: free will and the nature of human agency. Many assume that Locke defines freedom as merely the dependency of conduct on our wills. And much contemporary philosophical literature on free agency regards freedom as a form of self-expression in action. Here, Gideon Yaffe shows us that Locke conceived free agency not just as the freedom to express oneself, but as including also the freedom to transcend oneself and act in accordance with "the good." For Locke, exercising liberty involves making choices guided by what is good, valuable, and important. Thus, Locke's view is part of a tradition that finds freedom in the imitation of God's agency. Locke's free agent is the ideal agent.Yaffe also examines Locke's understanding of volition and voluntary action. For Locke, choices always involve self-consciousness. The kind of self-consciousness to which Locke appeals is intertwined with his conception of personal identity. And it is precisely this connection between the will and personal identity that reveals the special sense in which our voluntary actions can be attributed to us and the special sense in which we are active with respect to them. Deftly written and tightly focused, Liberty Worth the Name will find readers far beyond Locke studies and early modern British philosophy, including scholars interested in free will, action theory, and ethics.

Free will and determinism. --- Bramhall, Bishop. --- Hobbeseanism. --- addiction. --- attributability. --- awareness. --- causal chains, deviant. --- causal explanation. --- causal overdetermination. --- changeling. --- compatibilism. --- compulsion. --- corpuscularianism. --- deliberation. --- determinism, causal. --- education. --- egoism. --- evaluation. --- evaluative facts. --- freedom of action. --- good. --- habituation. --- happiness. --- imagination. --- indoctrination. --- intention. --- judgment. --- language. --- mathematics. --- mechanism. --- modification. --- motivation. --- natural law. --- naturalism. --- necessity. --- negligence. --- notions. --- openness. --- paralysis. --- passion. --- personal identity. --- pleasure. --- rationality. --- reflection. --- revelation. --- sacrifice. --- self-consciousness. --- substance. --- suspension. --- temptation. --- theology. --- time pressures. --- uneasiness. --- voluntariness. --- voluntarism. --- Free will and determinism --- Locke, John

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This is a collection of the late Heda Segvic's papers in ancient moral philosophy. At the time of her death at age forty-five in 2003, Segvic had already established herself as an important figure in ancient philosophy, making bold new arguments about the nature of Socratic intellectualism and the intellectual influences that shaped Aristotle's ideas. Segvic had been working for some time on a monograph on practical knowledge that would interpret Aristotle's ethical theory as a response to Protagoras. The essays collected here are those on which her reputation rests, including some that were intended to form the backbone of her projected monograph. The papers range from a literary study of Homer's influence on Plato's Protagoras to analytic studies of Aristotle's metaphysics and his ideas about deliberation. Most of the papers reflect directly or indirectly Segvic's idea that both Socrates' and Aristotle's universalism and objectivism in ethics could be traced back to their opposition to Protagorean relativism. The book represents the considerable achievements of one of the most talented scholars of ancient philosophy of her generation.

Ethics --- History. --- Action theory (philosophy). --- Agency (philosophy). --- Akrasia. --- Alcibiades. --- Allusion. --- Ambiguity. --- Analogy. --- Ancient philosophy. --- Apology (Plato). --- Aporia. --- Aristotelian ethics. --- Aristotelianism. --- Aristotle. --- Calculation. --- Callicles. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Causality. --- Chaerephon. --- Charmides (dialogue). --- Charmides. --- Concept. --- Contradiction. --- Critias (dialogue). --- Critias. --- David Wiggins. --- Determination. --- Dianoia. --- Discernment. --- Disposition. --- Ethics. --- Eudaimonia. --- Eudemian Ethics. --- Existence. --- Explanation. --- George Grote. --- Good and evil. --- Gorgias. --- Greek mythology. --- Hedonism. --- Hexis. --- Hippias. --- Homer. --- Human Action. --- Hypothesis. --- Inference. --- Inquiry. --- Intellectualism. --- Kantian ethics. --- Logos. --- Metaphor. --- Moral relativism. --- Morality. --- Nicomachean Ethics. --- Objectivity (philosophy). --- Pericles. --- Phaedo. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophical analysis. --- Philosophy. --- Phronesis. --- Plato. --- Platonic Academy. --- Platonic realism. --- Polus. --- Potentiality and actuality. --- Practical reason. --- Prodicus. --- Prohairesis. --- Protagoras. --- Rationalism. --- Rationality. --- Reason. --- Relativism. --- Republic (Plato). --- Rhetoric. --- Self-actualization. --- Socratic dialogue. --- Socratic method. --- Socratic. --- Sophism. --- Sophist (dialogue). --- Sophist. --- Subjectivity. --- Suggestion. --- Terence Irwin. --- The Death of Socrates. --- Theaetetus (dialogue). --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Thucydides. --- Treatise. --- Understanding. --- Value (ethics). --- Value judgment. --- Virtue. --- Voluntariness. --- Voluntary action. --- W. D. Ross. --- Writing.

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Boilerplate--the fine-print terms and conditions that we become subject to when we click "I agree" online, rent an apartment, enter an employment contract, sign up for a cellphone carrier, or buy travel tickets--pervades all aspects of our modern lives. On a daily basis, most of us accept boilerplate provisions without realizing that should a dispute arise about a purchased good or service, the nonnegotiable boilerplate terms can deprive us of our right to jury trial and relieve providers of responsibility for harm. Boilerplate is the first comprehensive treatment of the problems posed by the increasing use of these terms, demonstrating how their use has degraded traditional notions of consent, agreement, and contract, and sacrificed core rights whose loss threatens the democratic order. Margaret Jane Radin examines attempts to justify the use of boilerplate provisions by claiming either that recipients freely consent to them or that economic efficiency demands them, and she finds these justifications wanting. She argues, moreover, that our courts, legislatures, and regulatory agencies have fallen short in their evaluation and oversight of the use of boilerplate clauses. To improve legal evaluation of boilerplate, Radin offers a new analytical framework, one that takes into account the nature of the rights affected, the quality of the recipient's consent, and the extent of the use of these terms. Radin goes on to offer possibilities for new methods of boilerplate evaluation and control, among them the bold suggestion that tort law rather than contract law provides a preferable analysis for some boilerplate schemes. She concludes by discussing positive steps that NGOs, legislators, regulators, courts, and scholars could take to bring about better practices.

Standardized terms of contract --- Contracts, Standard --- Contracts, Uniform --- Standard conditions of contract --- Standard contracts --- Standardized contracts --- Uniform conditions of contract --- Uniform contracts --- Uniform terms of contract --- Contracts --- Unconscionable contracts --- Unconscionability of contracts --- European Union. --- NGOs. --- Omri Ben-Shahar. --- Robert Hillman. --- agreement. --- assent. --- automated filtering. --- autonomy theory. --- bargained-for exchange. --- boilerplate clauses. --- boilerplate rights. --- boilerplate. --- breach of contract. --- certifications. --- choice. --- coercion. --- comprehensive regulation. --- conditions. --- consent. --- consumer pushback. --- contract formation. --- contract law. --- contract philosophy. --- contract remedies. --- contract theory. --- contract-as-product theory. --- contract. --- contractual obligation. --- core rights. --- courts. --- democratic degradation. --- disclosure. --- economic efficiency. --- economic loss. --- economic rationality. --- economic theory. --- evaluation. --- fraud. --- habitability. --- heuristic biases. --- human rights. --- hybrid regimes. --- incentives. --- information asymmetry. --- invalid contract formation. --- judicial oversight. --- lawyers. --- legal scholars. --- legislatures. --- liability rules. --- machine bargaining. --- market solutions. --- market-inalienability. --- nonconsent. --- normative degradation. --- piecemeal adjudication. --- political rights. --- private law. --- private ordering. --- private reform. --- private sector. --- problematic consent. --- property rules. --- public ordering. --- radical unexpectedness. --- rating agencies. --- reasonable expectations. --- regulation. --- regulatory agencies. --- reputation. --- residential leases. --- rule of law. --- sheer ignorance. --- social dissemination. --- standardized form contracts. --- technological protection measures. --- terms. --- tort law. --- unconscionability. --- voidness. --- voluntariness. --- voluntary agreement. --- waivers. --- white lists. --- wild-card doctrines.