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245 10 a| Practical necessity, freedom, and historyh| [electronic resource] :b| from Hobbes to Marx /c| David James.;

246 34 a| Practical necessity, freedom, & history;

250 a| First Edition.;

260 a| Oxford :b| Oxford University Press,c| 2021.;

300 a| xii, 230 pages ;c| 24 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-225) and index.;

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520 8 a| "By means of careful analysis of relevant writings by Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, and Marx, David James argues that the concept of practical necessity is key to understanding the nature and extent of human freedom. Practical necessity means being, or believing oneself to be, constrained to perform certain actions in the absence (whether real or imagined) of other, more attractive options, or by the high costs involved in pursuing other options. Agents become subject to practical necessity as a result of economic, social, and historical forces over which they have, or appear to have, no effective control, and the extent to which they are subject to it varies according to the amount of economic and social power that one agent possesses relative to other agents.0The concept of practical necessity is also shown to take into account how the beliefs and attitudes of social agents are in large part determined by social and historical processes in which they are caught up, and that the type of motivation that we attribute to agents must recognize this. Practical Necessity, Freedom, and History: From Hobbes to Marx shows how Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, and Marx, in contrast to Hobbes, explain the emergence of the conditions of a free society in terms of a historical process that is initially governed by practical necessity. The role that this form of necessity plays in explaining history necessity invites the following question: to what extent are historical agents genuinely subject to both practical and historical necessity?"--c| Source other than Library of Congress.;

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Practical necessity, freedom, and history from Hobbes to Marx / David James.

Author/creator	James, David, 1966-
Other author	Oxford University Press.
Format	Electronic
Edition	First Edition.
Publication Info	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Description	xii, 230 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
Subjects	Necessity (Philosophy) Liberty.

Cover title	Practical necessity, freedom, & history
Summary	"By means of careful analysis of relevant writings by Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, and Marx, David James argues that the concept of practical necessity is key to understanding the nature and extent of human freedom. Practical necessity means being, or believing oneself to be, constrained to perform certain actions in the absence (whether real or imagined) of other, more attractive options, or by the high costs involved in pursuing other options. Agents become subject to practical necessity as a result of economic, social, and historical forces over which they have, or appear to have, no effective control, and the extent to which they are subject to it varies according to the amount of economic and social power that one agent possesses relative to other agents.0The concept of practical necessity is also shown to take into account how the beliefs and attitudes of social agents are in large part determined by social and historical processes in which they are caught up, and that the type of motivation that we attribute to agents must recognize this. Practical Necessity, Freedom, and History: From Hobbes to Marx shows how Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, and Marx, in contrast to Hobbes, explain the emergence of the conditions of a free society in terms of a historical process that is initially governed by practical necessity. The role that this form of necessity plays in explaining history necessity invites the following question: to what extent are historical agents genuinely subject to both practical and historical necessity?"-- Source other than Library of Congress.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-225) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2021931012
ISBN	9780198847885 (hardback)
ISBN	0198847882 (hardback)

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