Some Contemporary Problems Obscuring the Greatness of the Great Ideas

Katarzyna Stępień

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Chapter 7 Some Contemporary Problems Obscuring the Greatness of the Great Ideas

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Pages:: 112–126

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468016_009

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This chapter focuses attention on a tendency within the history of Western philosophy to absolutize human freedom, often in the forms of atheism, fideism, sentimentalism, or unbridled individualism. It argues that absence of limitations on human freedom tends to result in unhealthy forms of permissiveness—social, cultural, and political. In some cases, state administrations have enacted laws that dangerously limit or negate human freedoms, especially freedom of religion. This chapter argues that a proper understanding of the nature of human freedom demands a commonsense realist philosophical defense of a synthesis of the Great Ideas of Freedom and Religion as rational principles of healthy self-determined social life that deserves political and educational support and preservation.

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The Great Ideas of Religion and Freedom

A Semiotic Reinterpretation of The Great Ideas Movement for the 21st Century

Series: Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 369, Philosophy and Religion, Volume: 369, and Value Inquiry Book Series Online

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Print Publication Date:: 17 Jul 2021

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