Freedom Paradox

Acknowledgments

Preface

PART ONE Freedom reconsidered

1 The disappointment of liberalism

2 Rationale

3 Types of happiness

4 Freedom and happiness

5 Types of liberty

6 Inner freedom

7 Do we prefer what we choose?

8 Self-deception and akrasia

9 A digression on the ethic of consent

10 Exercising inner freedom

11 Subtle coercion

12 The decline of free will

13 From political philosophy to metaphysics

PART TWO Philosophical foundations

14 The need for metaphysics

15 Consciousness and the subject

16 Phenomenon and noumenon

17 The 'legislation for nature'

18 Scientific thinking

19 Knowing and being

20 Instances of non-sensible intuition

21 The noumenon and the Self

22 A digression on the existence of God

23 On death

PART THREE Towards a post-secular ethics

24 Modern moral anxiety

25 Moral relativism

26 Reconstructing a moral code

27 Rationalist ethics

28 Genuine philanthropy

29 The moral self

30 Emotions as judgments

31 Further thoughts

32 Avatars of virtue

33 Egoism and malice

34 Eternal justice

PART FOUR Moral judge or moral adviser?

35 Becoming good

36 The theory in practice

37 Suicide

38 Sex

39 Nature

PART FIVE Freedom rediscovered

40 The ground of inner freedom

41 Finding inner freedom

42 The individual and the collective

43 Aesthetics

44 Happiness reconsidered

45 The human condition

Notes

Index