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Obedience is Freedom - Softcover

Phillips, Jacob

 
9781509549344: Obedience is Freedom
Softcover
ISBN 10: 150954934X ISBN 13: 9781509549344
Verlag: Polity, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

The virtue of obedience is seen as outdated today, if not downright toxic – and yet, are we any freer than our forebears?

In this provocative work, Jacob Phillips argues not. Many feel unable to speak freely, their opinions policed by the implicit or explicit threat of coercion. Impending ecological disaster is the ultimate threat to our freedoms and wellbeing, and living in a disenchanted cosmos leaves people enslaved to nihilistic whim.  Phillips shows that the antiquated notion of obedience to the moral law contains forgotten dimensions, which can be a source of freedom from these contemporary fetters. These dimensions of obedience – such as loyalty, discipline and order – protect people from falling prey to the subtle forms of coercion, control and domination of twenty-first-century life.

Fusing literary insight with philosophical discussion and cultural critique, Phillips demonstrates that in obedience lies the path to true freedom.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jacob Phillips is Director of the Institute of Theology and Liberal Arts at St Mary’s University, Twickenham.

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Verlag
Polity
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
150954934X
ISBN 13 
9781509549344
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
200
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