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The Quality of Freedom
Author | : Matthew H. Kramer |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2008-05-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780191562860 |
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At least since the publication of Isaiah Berlin's famous essay "Two Concepts of Liberty" nearly half a century ago, political philosophers have argued vigorously over the relative merits of "positive" and "negative" accounts of freedom. Matthew Kramer writes squarely within the negative-liberty tradition, but he incorporates a number of ideas that are quite often associated with theories of positive liberty. Much of The Quality of Freedom is devoted to elaborating the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of particular freedoms and unfreedoms; however, the book's cardinal objective is to establish the measurability of each person's overall freedom and of each society's aggregate freedom. On the one hand, Kramer contends that the existence of any particular instance of liberty or unfreedom is a matter of fact that can be confirmed or disconfirmed without any reliance on evaluative or normative considerations. On the other hand, he argues that the extent of each person's overall freedom or unfreedom cannot be ascertained entirely in the absence of evaluative assumptions. By combining those two positions and developing them in detail, Kramer pits himself against all positive accounts of liberty and most negative accounts. In the course of so doing, he aims to demonstrate the rigorous measurability of overall liberty - something that many writers on freedom have casually dismissed as impossible. Although Kramer concentrates principally on constructing a systematic analysis of sociopolitical freedom, he engages critically with the work of many of the leading contemporary writers on the topic.
The Quality of Freedom
Author | : Matthew H. Kramer |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:149887679 |
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The Quality of Freedom
Author | : Richard Sakwa |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780199211579 |
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A major new assessment of the key episodes in Russia's recent political and economic history that sheds important new light on the nature of power and freedom in Russia today.
Positive Freedom
Author | : John Christman |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2021-09-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781108487900 |
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This is the first volume to treat the idea of positive freedom in detail and from multiple perspectives.
The Quality of Freedom
Author | : Matthew H. Kramer |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 495 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780199545735 |
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At least since the publication of Isaiah Berlin's famous essay "Two Concepts of Liberty" nearly half a century ago, political philosophers have argued vigorously over the relative merits of "positive" and "negative" accounts of freedom. Matthew Kramer writes squarely within the negative-liberty tradition, but he incorporates a number of ideas that are quite often associated with theories of positive liberty. Much of The Quality of Freedom is devoted to elaborating the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of particular freedoms and unfreedoms; however, the book's cardinal objective is to establish the measurability of each person's overall freedom and of each society's aggregate freedom. On the one hand, Kramer contends that the existence of any particular instance of liberty or unfreedom is a matter of fact that can be confirmed or disconfirmed without any reliance on evaluative or normative considerations. On the other hand, he argues that the extent of each person's overall freedom or unfreedom cannot be ascertained entirely in the absence of evaluative assumptions. By combining those two positions and developing them in detail, Kramer pits himself against all positive accounts of liberty and most negative accounts. In the course of so doing, he aims to demonstrate the rigorous measurability of overall liberty--something that many writers on freedom have casually dismissed as impossible. Although Kramer concentrates principally on constructing a systematic analysis of sociopolitical freedom, he engages critically with the work of many of the leading contemporary writers on the topic.
The Freedom to Read
Author | : American Library Association |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Libraries |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112060168629 |
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Powers of Freedom
Author | : Nikolas Rose |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1999-05-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0521659051 |
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A 1999 review of governmentality literature, derived from Foucault, which broke new ground in ethics and politics.
Development as Freedom
Author | : Amartya Sen |
Publsiher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2011-05-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780307874290 |
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By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers--perhaps even the majority of people--he concludes, it is still possible to practically and optimistically restain a sense of social accountability. Development as Freedom is essential reading.