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The Freedom Paradox: Towards A Post-Secular Ethics (2008)

by Clive Hamilton(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1741755077 (ISBN13: 9781741755077)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Allen & Unwin

review 1: Hamilton borrows a philosophical stance from Schopenhauer, who is similar in many respects to Immanuel Kant and builds a system of Ethics from this. An interesting way to get to a kind of mundane conclusion. He tries to tie the book up with our current consumer culture and it's inherent evils however he doesn't give enough explanation in my opinion to warrant some of the links he creates. Taken from a strictly philosophical standpoint the book was interesting and presented me with a different way of thinking about a subject I had touched little on.
review 2: Showed great promise: interesting subject, well written, clear and concise - then disappointment set in. The digression into noumenon was rather long(-winded), his examples of it seemed tenuous. The book as... more a whole came uncomfortably close to self-help territory and it felt theistic at times. Hamilton made sense most of the time but he made a few assumptions that I could not, or would not, make.Caveat lector. less

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