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Excerpt from Typical Recent Conceptions of Freedom
A recent writer on the problem of freedom has declared it to be one of the most confused and complicated prob lems in the entire field of philosophy.1 This confusion may, as he suggests, be accounted for both by the number of human interests concerned and by the history of the problem. Freedom has been discussed from the most diverse angles. Sometimes it has been regarded as pri marily a psychological problem; again, its intimate relation to problems of the moral life has been stressed; at various other times, its implications for metaphysics, for religion, for science, or for social theory have been in the forefront of attention. A short sketch, therefore, of the history of the problem may serve to bring out its many-sidedness and to introduce us to contemporary conceptions of freedom.
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