Philosopher Lachs contemplates what humans need in order to live fulfilled lives in today's world. While comfort has not always reached everyone evenly, Lachs suggests new rules for responsibility and argues that examining and understanding the consequences of one's actions is imperative to overcoming the ills and problems of the modern world.
John Lachs is Centennial Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of many books, including Meddling: On the Virtue of Leaving Others Alone and Stoic Pragmatism.
Perché vogliamo sempre imporci sugli altri? Per quale ragione il nostro comportamento ci appare normale e quello altrui inevitabilmente da correggere? Com'è possibile, soprattutto, che altre persone sembrino conoscere il nostro bene perfino meglio di noi stessi? Secondo John Lachs è necessario riscoprire il piacere di scegliere e, ancor prima, imparare a lasciare in pace gli altri, affinché tutti possano condurre la loro vita come meglio credo...
Freedom and Limits is a defense of the value of freedom in the context of human finitude. Working out of the American pragmatist tradition, the book aims to reclaim the role of philosophy as a guide to life.
Designed to guide the student or scholar through the maze of books and articles on the philosophy of Marx and Marxism-Leninism, this bibliography should be an essential aid, not only to students of Marxism and to professional philosophers, but also to scholars in every field in which Marxist thought has had an impact.Originally published 1967.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to ma...
John Lachs is Centennial Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He is author of Stoic Pragmatism (IUP, 2012), A Community of Individuals, and In Love with Life.
Focuses on moral problems as we encounter them in daily life. This book argues that uniformity is unproductive: individuals can lead meaningful lives on the basis of their personal values. It presents discussions of such important philosophers as Fichte, Hegel, Peirce, Dewey, James and, above all, Santayana.
John Lachs is Centennial Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He is author of Stoic Pragmatism (IUP, 2012), A Community of Individuals, and In Love with Life.
Leading Harvard philosophy professor William Ernest Hocking (1873-1966), author of 17 books and in his day second only to John Dewey in the breadth of his thinking, is now largely forgotten, and his once-influential writings are out of print. This volume, which combines a rich selection of HockingA-s work with incisive essays by distinguished scholars, seeks to recover Hocking's valuable contributions to philosophical thought.
The essays collected in this volume and written between 1959-1980 clearly belong to professional philosophy in both tone and context. Yet their ultimate aim is to explore larger problems and to set the groundwork for dealing with them. For the focus of attention throughout is human nature, not so much in the details of its structure or its social and moral manifestations as in its most general features and constituents. What sort of beings we ...
With The Relevance of Philosophy to Life, eminent American philosopher John Lachs reminds us that philosophy is not merely a remote subject of academic research and discourse, but an ever-changing field which can help us navigate through some of the chaos of late twentieth-century living. It provides a clear-eyed look at important philosophical issues--the primacy of values, rationality and irrationality, society and its discontents, life and ...
