Philosophers typically see the issue of free will and determinism in terms of a debate between two standard positions. Incompatibilism holds that freedom and responsibility require causal and metaphysical independence from the impersonal forces of nature. According to compatibilism, people are free and responsible as long as their actions are governed by their desires. In Freedom Within Reason, Susan Wolf charts a path between these traditional positions: We are not free and responsible, she argues, for actions that are governed by desires that we cannot help having. But the wish to form our own desires from nothing is both futile and arbitrary. Some of the forces beyond our control are friends to freedom rather than enemies of it: they endow us with faculties of reason, perception, and imagination, and provide us with the data by which we come to see and appreciate the world for what it is. The independence we want, Wolf argues, is not independence from the world, but independence from forces that prevent or preclude us from choosing how to live in light of a sufficient appreciation of the world. The freedom we want is a freedom within reason and the world.

Freedom Within Reason

Wolf, Susan

Rules & Procedures

Oxford University Press

Philosophers typically see the issue of free will and determinism in terms of a debate between two standard positions. Incompatibilism holds that freedom and responsibility require causal and metaphysical independence from the impersonal forces of nature. According to compatibilism, people are free and responsible as long as their actions are governed by their desires. In Freedom Within Reason, Susan Wolf charts a path between these traditional positions: We are not free and responsible, she argues, for actions that are governed by desires that we cannot help having. But the wish to form our own desires from nothing is both futile and arbitrary. Some of the forces beyond our control are friends to freedom rather than enemies of it: they endow us with faculties of reason, perception, and imagination, and provide us with the data by which we come to see and appreciate the world for what it is. The independence we want, Wolf argues, is not independence from the world, but independence from forces that prevent or preclude us from choosing how to live in light of a sufficient appreciation of the world. The freedom we want is a freedom within reason and the world.

Freedom within Reason

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

The Variety of Values: Essays on Morality, Meaning, and Love

For over thirty years Susan Wolf has been writing about moral and nonmoral values and the relation between them. This volume collects Wolf's most important essays on the topics of morality, love, and meaning, ranging from her classic essay "Moral Saints" to her most recent "The Importance of Love."Wolf's essays warn us against the common tendency to classify values in terms of a dichotomy that contrasts the personal, self-interested, or egoistic with the impersonal, altruistic or moral. On Wolf's view, this tendency ignores or distorts the significance of such values as love, beauty, and truth, and neglects the importance of meaningfulness as a dimension of the good life. These essays show us how a self-conscious recognition of the variety of values leads to new understandings of the point, the content, and the limits of morality and to new ways of thinking about happiness and well-being.

For over thirty years Susan Wolf has been writing about moral and nonmoral values and the relation between them. This volume collects Wolf's most important essays on the topics of morality, love, and meaning, ranging from her classic essay "Moral Saints" to her most recent "The Importance of Love." Wolf's essays warn us against the common tendency to classify values in terms of a dichotomy that contrasts the personal, self-interested, or egoistic with the impersonal, altruistic or moral. On Wolf's view, this tendency ignores or distorts the significance of such values as love, beauty, and truth, and neglects the importance of meaningfulness as a dimension of the good life. These essays show us how a self-conscious recognition of the variety of values leads to new understandings of the point, the content, and the limits of morality and to new ways of thinking about happiness and well-being.

Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law

Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law is a lively and accessible account of pollution control law in England and Wales. Written with real clarity and supported by a range of learning features, this text offers an excellent starting point to those encountering this diverse and controversial subject for the first time. This new edition has been fully updated and revised to take into account all the recent developments in the subject, including coverage of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005, the Hazardous Waste Regulations 2005, the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007, the Air Quality Strategy for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland 2007 and developments in environmental tort case law such as Corby Group Litigation v Corby Borough Council (2008). Further afield, Wolf and Stanley also considers the EC Environmental Liability Directive 2004, the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and the Lisbon Treaty 2009. Suitable for students of environmental law and the wider environmental studies, Wolf and Stanley is a valuable guide to this wide-ranging subject.

Stanley, Neil

Environmental & Natural Resources Law

Routledge

Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law is a lively and accessible account of pollution control law in England and Wales. Written with real clarity and supported by a range of learning features, this text offers an excellent starting point to those encountering this diverse and controversial subject for the first time. This new edition has been fully updated and revised to take into account all the recent developments in the subject, including coverage of the Waste and Trading Emissions Act 2003, the Household Waste Recycling Act 2003, the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 and the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2007-2009. Further afield, Wolf and Stanley also considers the EC Environmental Liability Directive and the Aarhus Convention and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. Suitable for students of environmental law and the wider environmental studies, Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law is a valuable guide to this wide-ranging subject.

Written with real clarity by authors teaching and researching in the field, Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law offers an excellent starting point for both law and non-law students encountering this diverse and controversial subject for the first time. Topics covered include administration and enforcement, waste management, EU environmental law, pollution control, environmental permitting, contaminated land, environmental torts and private regulation.  The book is supported by a range of learning features designed to help students:   Consolidate your learning: Chapter learning objectives and detailed summaries clarify and highlight key points    Understand how the law works in practice: ‘Law in Action’ features demonstrate the application of pollution control law   Plan your research: Detailed end of chapter further reading sections outline articles, books and online resources that provide next steps for your research  This sixth edition has been updated and revised to take into account recent developments in the subject, including coverage of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010; developments in the Environment Agency enforcement and sanctions policy documents; and updates relating to the defence of statutory authority in the tort of private nuisance. Suitable for students of environmental law and the wider environmental studies, Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law is a valuable guide to this wide-ranging subject. Susan Wolf is Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of Northumbria. Neil Stanley is Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds.

Written with real clarity by authors teaching and researching in the field, Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law offers an excellent starting point for both law and non-law students encountering this diverse and controversial subject for the first time. Topics covered include administration and enforcement, waste management, EU environmental law, pollution control, environmental permitting, contaminated land, environmental torts and private regulation. The book is supported by a range of learning features designed to help students: <ul>
<li>Consolidate your learning: Chapter learning objectives and detailed summaries clarify and highlight key points </li> <li>Understand how the law works in practice: ‘Law in Action’ features demonstrate the application of pollution control law</li> <li>Plan your research: Detailed end of chapter further reading sections outline articles, books and online resources that provide next steps for your research</li> </ul>
This sixth edition has been updated and revised to take into account recent developments in the subject, including coverage of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010; developments in the Environment Agency enforcement and sanctions policy documents; and updates relating to the defence of statutory authority in the tort of private nuisance. Suitable for students of environmental law and the wider environmental studies, Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law is a valuable guide to this wide-ranging subject.
Susan Wolf is Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of Northumbria.
Neil Stanley is Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds.

Most people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral. According to Susan Wolf, however, much of what motivates us does not comfortably fit into this scheme. Often we act neither for our own sake nor out of duty or an impersonal concern for the world. Rather, we act out of love for objects that we rightly perceive as worthy of love--and it is these actions that give meaning to our lives. Wolf makes a compelling case that, along with happiness and morality, this kind of meaningfulness constitutes a distinctive dimension of a good life. Written in a lively and engaging style, and full of provocative examples, Meaning in Life and Why It Matters is a profound and original reflection on a subject of permanent human concern.

Meaning in Life and Why It Matters (The University Center for Human Values Series)

Princeton University Press

Albert, a former circus bear living in a zoo, overeats and gets fat, but after escaping to search for more food, finds something in a garbage truck that changes his life

The Adventures of Albert the Running Bear

Isenberg, Barbara

Children's Books

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

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Freedom Within Reason

Freedom within Reason

The Variety of Values: Essays on Morality, Meaning, and Love

The Variety of Values: Essays on Morality, Meaning, and Love

Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law

Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law

Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law

Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law

Meaning in Life and Why It Matters (The University Center for Human Values Series)

The Adventures of Albert the Running Bear