Freedom Determinism Indeterminism

The idea and the feeling of freedom play such a part in the life of man that he is ready to sacrifice in their name his own life and still more frequently that of his fellow-men. Man feels that he is really man only when he is able to realize himself indivi­ dually, socially and cosmically in a complete freedom, i. e. according to the inner bio-psychical depths of his own being without any constraint from the outer - social or cosmic - world. However, although people like very much, and often too much, to speak about freedom, its content and limits are so vague for most of them that everybody determines the content and limits of freedom according to his own tastes, dispositions and interests. Perhaps just because of this vagueness of the idea of freedom, this idea has such a great influence on man, giving a free play to his imagination. Therefore, it would be good to clarify the idea of freedom by analysing its different aspects in their connection with the general problem of determinism and indeterminism. Front Matter....Pages i-vii Psychological Aspect of Freedom....Pages 1-4 Social Aspect of Freedom....Pages 5-22 Cosmic Aspect of Freedom....Pages 23-37 Time-Space Determination in its Application to the Inner-Psychical — World of Man....Pages 38-48 Transcendental and Immanental Determinism....Pages 49-55 Fatalism as a Form of Transcendental Determinism....Pages 56-59 4-Dimensional Universe and Determinism....Pages 60-67 Cosmic Existence and Coexistence and the Problem of Determinism and Indeterminism....Pages 68-76 Existence and Coexistence of Man and the Problem of Determinism-Indeterminism....Pages 77-81 The Inner Individual Determinism and the Outer Social and Cosmic Determinism in the World of Man....Pages 82-96 The Aim- and Means-Aspect of Freedom — Non-Freedom, Indeterminism — Determinism....Pages 97-104 Back Matter....Pages 105-117