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    A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism

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    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 ... Læs mere

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  • A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

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