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The Straniak Philosophy Prize 1995 awarded by the Hermann and Marianne Straniak Foundation Sarnen/Switzerland This book explores Eastern and Western ideas of freedom and reveals the essential differences, as well as similarities, between Eastern and Western cultural values. Inspired by an ancient Greek myth recounted by Protagoras, the authors suggest that three important values tend to motivate human activity: achieving pleasure, achieving results, and obeying moral law. Then, drawing on intellectual sources ranging from traditional Hinduism to modern existentialism, the authors proceed to…mehr

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The Straniak Philosophy Prize 1995 awarded by the Hermann and Marianne Straniak Foundation Sarnen/Switzerland
This book explores Eastern and Western ideas of freedom and reveals the essential differences, as well as similarities, between Eastern and Western cultural values. Inspired by an ancient Greek myth recounted by Protagoras, the authors suggest that three important values tend to motivate human activity: achieving pleasure, achieving results, and obeying moral law. Then, drawing on intellectual sources ranging from traditional Hinduism to modern existentialism, the authors proceed to show how these values - pleasure, efficiency, and morality - determine the idea of freedom as it appears in various philosophical systems of East and West. In the course of their analysis, the idea of freedom is itself emancipated from the usual kinds of cultural boundaries that have so often limited both its usefulness and its timeliness.
Autorenporträt
The Authors: Oded Balaban is Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Haifa, Israel. He received his Ph.D. in Hegel's Logic from the University of Tel-Aviv. In addition to numerous articles in academic journals, he wrote Concrete Politics,and Subject and Consciousness, drawing on his specialization in Epistemology and Political Philosophy.
Anan Erev is a member of the Kibbutz Kabri at the Galilee Heights. He currentl y works in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Haifa, Israel. In addition to teaching mathematics, he is writing his thesis on the denoting of proper names. He studied yoga according to the school of Ananda-Margo and Shivananda.
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"This unusually wide-ranging study combines broad intellectual sympathies and information with deep insight into the fundamental ideas and values that lie at the base of cogent thought about freedom. The reader who comes to this book from a background shaped by contemporary Western writings about freedom will never again think about the issues in the same old way." (Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh)