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Hierarchy and Freedom

by Hasan Spiker

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: New Andalus Press
  • 12.7 x 20.4 x 1.2 cm

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The repudiation of the existence of intrinsic hierarchies is one of the defining insistences of contemporary Western liberal society, along with the dominant strands of philosophical and socio-political thought that underlie it. This short work, by philosopher Hasan Spiker, is about the relationship between a decisive feature of Enlightenment thought, individual self-determination or 'autonomy', and one of the most far-reaching and widely held principles of the prior 'premodern' philosophical orthodoxy, namely that reality possesses an intrinsically hierarchical structure. This broad doctrine, which traces its philosophical roots at least to Plato himself, won near-unanimous acceptance during the Middle Ages. However, with the advent of the Age of Enlightenment beginning in the 17th century in Europe, this near unanimity shifted to the unanimity of rejection. The thinkers of that age, from John Locke to the Enlightenment philosophes, many of whom contributed to the Encyclop

  • Author

    Hasan Spiker

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    New Andalus Press

  • Published

    February 2023

  • Weight

    264g

  • Dimensions

    12.7 x 20.4 x 1.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9798218147471

  • ISBN-10

    8218147470

  • Eden Code

    6172124

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