The Relativity of Free Will

Philosophy ◽  
1929 ◽  
Vol 4 (15) ◽  
pp. 325-331
Author(s):  
Herbert Samuel
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Human Responsibility ◽  
Individual Human

I was led to philosophy by politics. There can be no foundation for political action except in ethics; and there can be no foundation for ethics except in some form of metaphysics, whether religious or other. And one cannot travel very far along the philosophic road— particularly if one has in mind the need of arriving at some definite destination—without finding as an obstacle the perennial problem of Free Will. It is an obstacle which has somehow to be crossed. It cannot be evaded or ignored. The man who is dealing with public affairs—with the principles of Criminal Law, for example, or with the factors that make for peace or war, and indeed with any of the major questions that confront our society—if he tries to think things out, is faced constantly by the problem of individual human responsibility; just as the man of religion is faced by it constantly.

History: changing the forms or forming the changes?

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
SVEND ERIK LARSEN
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Future Planning ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Vitruvian Man ◽  
Human Responsibility ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Human

Change in European cultural history has, for a long period, been discussed through two interrelated notions, that of science and that of history. This paper traces the various stages of this discussion from Antiquity to the present day from the point of view of history. Two reoccurring and paradigmatic characters of mythological descent, Odysseus and Prometheus, illustrate how history as a realm for human responsibility and future planning has established itself as a specific European construct, with the 18th century as its final breakthrough in practical and ideological terms. A close analysis of Leonardo da Vinci's drawing the Vitruvian Man, in statu nascendi, shows how the individual human being carrying the obligations and the promises of this history, is envisioned. The final remarks underline the importance of scientific knowledge in the concrete shaping of this responsibility and a plea for an increased cooperation across the disciplines.

Prophets in the Wilderness: An Ecology of Ministerial Organization Participation in Public Affairs

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Djupe ◽  
Franklyn C. Niles
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Political Action ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Organizational Systems ◽  
United Methodist Church ◽  
Methodist Church ◽  
Design Choice ◽  
Public Versus Private ◽  
Data Result

AbstractStudies of interest groups typically sample from organizations or lobbyists registered with a government – those already engaged in political action. Because of this design choice, the questions asked of organizational systems are constrained. We take a different tack, pursuing investigation of one organizational form, ministerial organizations (MOs), in a wide variety of systems to ask about whether and how they engage in public affairs across ecologies. Specifically, we ask: What pressures affect whether MOs engage a public versus private purpose? How do MOs forage in public affairs, with what size and diversity of coalition? The data result from a hyper-network survey of MO contacts, identified by a national sample of United Methodist Church clergy. We find, contrary to assertions in previous work that religious interest groups respond to ecological pressures in a similar manner as other interest groups.

Correlates of Political Consumption in Africa

2016 ◽  
pp. 452-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Adugu
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
World Citizenship ◽  
The World ◽  
A Site ◽  
Political Consumption

Using the marketplace as a site for political action with social change motives is referred as political consumption. Boycott, as a form of political consumption is an innovative way being used by citizens to directly express their attitudes, interests and concerns with the ultimate goal of influencing public affairs. This book chapter specifically examines the correlates of boycott as a form of political consumption in Africa using Wave 6 of the World Values Survey. Based on binary logistic regression, the correlates of boycott action are: level of education, gender, social class, media usage, gender equality, institutional confidence, social network, interest in politics, life satisfaction, seeing oneself as being part of world citizenship, seeing oneself as being embedded in local community, importance of doing something for the good of society, importance of traditions, and importance of riches or expensive things. These findings have implications for reaching out to boycotters.

Correlates of Political Consumption in Africa

2019 ◽  
pp. 1656-1677
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Adugu
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
World Citizenship ◽  
The World ◽  
A Site ◽  
Political Consumption

Using the marketplace as a site for political action with social change motives is referred as political consumption. Boycott, as a form of political consumption is an innovative way being used by citizens to directly express their attitudes, interests and concerns with the ultimate goal of influencing public affairs. This book chapter specifically examines the correlates of boycott as a form of political consumption in Africa using Wave 6 of the World Values Survey. Based on binary logistic regression, the correlates of boycott action are: level of education, gender, social class, media usage, gender equality, institutional confidence, social network, interest in politics, life satisfaction, seeing oneself as being part of world citizenship, seeing oneself as being embedded in local community, importance of doing something for the good of society, importance of traditions, and importance of riches or expensive things. These findings have implications for reaching out to boycotters.

Human Dignity as a Protected Interest in Criminal Law

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 143-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatjana Hörnle ◽  
Mordechai Kremnitzer
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Child Pornography ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Third ◽  
Objective Value ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Human

Human dignity can be a protected interest in criminal law. This paper starts with some reflections about the meaning of human dignity and then examines offense descriptions in the German Penal Code and the Israeli Penal Code. These codes are used as sources for identifying possibly relevant prohibitions. One can indeed find numerous examples of offense descriptions that can be justified by pointing to human dignity, either as a main protected interest or as a protected interest in addition to other interests. The protected interest can be either the individual victim's right to human dignity or human dignity as an objective value. Offense descriptions that can be connected to “protection of human dignity” should, for analytical purposes, be divided into three groups: violations of the dignity of individual human beings through acts other than speech; violations of the human dignity of individuals through speech; and media content that does not contain statements about individuals but shows scenes of severe humiliation (e.g., fictional child pornography). Questions that need further discussion primarily concern the second group (what role should free speech play in cases of human dignity violations?) and the third group (does the acknowledgement of human dignity as an objective value mean to endorse a re-moralization of the criminal law?).

Free Will and Human Responsibility.

1912 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 332
Author(s):  
James B. Pratt ◽  
Herman Harrell Horne
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Human Responsibility

Free Will and Human Responsibility.

1912 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 481
Author(s):  
H. W. Wright ◽  
H. H. Horne
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Human Responsibility
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