Obedience Is Freedom Phillips Jacob
Obedience Is Freedom Phillips Jacob The virtue of obedience is seen as outdated today, if not downright toxic - and yet are we any freer than our forebears?In this provocative work, Jacob Phillips…
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Obedience Is Freedom Phillips Jacob
The virtue of obedience is seen as outdated today, if not downright toxic - and yet are we any freer than our forebears?In this provocative work, Jacob Phillips argues not. The racialisation of all social problems traps people under the weight of impersonal categorisation. Many feel unable to speak freely, their opinions policed by the implicit or explicit threat of coercion.
He shows that the antiquated notion of obedience to the moral law contains forgotten dimensions which can be a liberating source of freedom from these contemporary fetters. Impending ecological disaster is the ultimate of all threats to our freedoms and well-being, and living in a disenchanted cosmos leaves people enslaved to nihilistic whim and blind fate. These dimensions of obedience - like loyalty, deference, discipline, and order - protect people from falling prey to the subtle forms of coercion,