A Measure Of Freedom

Author : Ian Carter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198294535

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It is often said that one person or society is `freer' than another, or that people have a right to equal freedom, or that freedom should be increased or even maximized. Such quantitative claims about freedom are of great importance to us, forming an essential part of our political discourse and theorizing. Yet their meaning has been surprisingly neglected by political philosophers until now.Ian Carter provides the first systematic account of the nature and importance of our judgements about degrees of freedom. He begins with an analysis of the normative assumptions behind the claim that individuals are entitled to a measure of freedom, and then goes on to ask whether it is indeed conceptually possible to measure freedom. Adopting a coherentist approach, the author argues for a conception of freedom that not only reflects commonly held intuitions about who is freer than who but isalso compatible with a liberal or freedom-based theory of justice.

Author : Ian Carter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Liberty
ISBN : OCLC:1132049676

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Exploring the nature of judgements about degrees of freedom, this book argues for a conception of freedom that not only reflects commonly held intuitions about who is freer than who, but that is also compatible with a liberal theory of justice.

Author : Arnold Forster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:33483799

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Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307874290

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Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen Pdf

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.

Author : Jarvis Jay Masters
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611809114

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Finding Freedom by Jarvis Jay Masters Pdf

There are many forms of liberation—some that exist at the mercy of circumstance and others that can never be taken away. In this stirring and timely collection of stories, essays, poems, and letters, Jarvis Jay Masters explores the meaning of true freedom on his road to inner peace through Buddhist practice. He reveals his life as a young African American man surrounded by violence, his entanglement in the criminal justice system, and—following an encounter with Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche—an unfolding commitment to nonviolence and peacemaking. At turns joyful, heartbreaking, frightening, and soaring with profound insight, Masters’s story offers a vision of hope and the possibility of freedom in even the darkest of times.

Author : American Library Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UIUC:30112060168629

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The Freedom to Read by American Library Association Pdf

Author : Sebastiano Bavetta,Pietro Navarra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107017849

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The Economics of Freedom by Sebastiano Bavetta,Pietro Navarra Pdf

This book develops a measure of Autonomy Freedom and sheds light on its consequences for policy and political design.

Author : Arnold Forster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126644181

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On discriminatory and antisemitic attitudes in the US.

Author : Thomas L. Dumm
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780742521391

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Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom by Thomas L. Dumm Pdf

This edition of a 1995 book (Sage Publications) contains a new introduction by the series editor and a new preface. Readers familiar with Foucault's work will appreciate the difficulty in critically studying its arresting paradoxical nature. Dumm (political science, Amherst College) negotiates the problem by creating a thematic framework--the idea of being "free" in a modern Western capitalist democracy--and examining it through a Foucaultian lens. He focuses on the politics of freedom, negative freedom, the disciplinary society, ethics, seduction, governments, and provides an enlightening companion to Foucault's postmodern philosophy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Ratna Omidvar and Dana Wagner
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781771132305

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Flight and Freedom by Ratna Omidvar and Dana Wagner Pdf

Author : Mariam Thalos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317394952

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A Social Theory of Freedom by Mariam Thalos Pdf

In A Social Theory of Freedom, Mariam Thalos argues that the theory of human freedom should be a broadly social and political theory, rather than a theory that places itself in opposition to the issue of determinism. Thalos rejects the premise that a theory of freedom is fundamentally a theory of the metaphysics of constraint and, instead, lays out a political conception of freedom that is closely aligned with questions of social identity, self-development in contexts of intimate relationships, and social solidarity. Thalos argues that whether a person is free (in any context) depends upon a certain relationship of fit between that agent’s conception of themselves (both present and future), on the one hand, and the facts of their circumstances, on the other. Since relationships of fit are broadly logical, freedom is a logic—it is the logic of fit between one’s aspirations and one’s circumstances, what Thalos calls the logic of agency. The logic of agency, once fleshed out, becomes a broadly social and political theory that encompasses one’s self-conceptions as well as how these self-conceptions are generated, together with how they fit with the circumstances of one’s life. The theory of freedom proposed in this volume is fundamentally a political one.

Author : Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF)
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838913253

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A History of ALA Policy on Intellectual Freedom by Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) Pdf

Collecting several key documents and policy statements, this supplement to the ninth edition of the Intellectual Freedom Manual traces a history of ALA’s commitment to fighting censorship. An introductory essay by Judith Krug and Candace Morgan, updated by OIF Director Barbara Jones, sketches out an overview of ALA policy on intellectual freedom. An important resource, this volume includes documents which discuss such foundational issues as The Library Bill of RightsProtecting the freedom to readALA’s Code of EthicsHow to respond to challenges and concerns about library resourcesMinors and internet activityMeeting rooms, bulletin boards, and exhibitsCopyrightPrivacy, including the retention of library usage records

Author : Emilio Santoro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401708234

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Autonomy, Freedom and Rights by Emilio Santoro Pdf

For the author freedom is not a fixed measure. It is not the container of powers and rights defining an individual's role and identity. It is rather the outcome of a process whereby individuals continuously re-define the shape of their individuality. Freedom is everything that each of us manages to be in his or her active and uncertain opposition to external 'pressures'.

Author : G. A. Cohen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1400838665

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On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice, and Other Essays in Political Philosophy by G. A. Cohen Pdf

G. A. Cohen was one of the most gifted, influential, and progressive voices in contemporary political philosophy. At the time of his death in 2009, he had plans to bring together a number of his most significant papers. This is the first of three volumes to realize those plans. Drawing on three decades of work, it contains previously uncollected articles that have shaped many of the central debates in political philosophy, as well as papers published here for the first time. In these pieces, Cohen asks what egalitarians have most reason to equalize, he considers the relationship between freedom and property, and he reflects upon ideal theory and political practice. Included here are classic essays such as "Equality of What?" and "Capitalism, Freedom, and the Proletariat," along with more recent contributions such as "Fairness and Legitimacy in Justice," "Freedom and Money," and the previously unpublished "How to Do Political Philosophy." On ample display throughout are the clarity, rigor, conviction, and wit for which Cohen was renowned. Together, these essays demonstrate how his work provides a powerful account of liberty and equality to the left of Ronald Dworkin, John Rawls, Amartya Sen, and Isaiah Berlin.

Author : Robert E. Goodin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0511387334

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Discretionary Time by Robert E. Goodin Pdf