Positive Liberty An Essay in Normative Political Philosophy
Liberty is perhaps the most praised of all social ideals. Rare is the modern political movement which has not inscribed "liberty," "freedom," "liber ation," or "emancipation" prominently on its banners. Rarer still is the political leader who has spoken out a...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1980, 1980
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1980 |
| Series: | Melbourne International Philosophy Series
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Table of Contents:
- I. Introduction
- 1. Berlin’s Distinction
- 2. MacCallum on Positive and Negative Liberty
- 3. The Strategy of the Argument
- II. The Freedom to do a Particular Thing: The Objective Side
- 4. Restraint and Incapacity
- 5. Coercion
- 6. Coercion and the Wage Agreement
- 7. The Probability of Doing ?
- III. The Freedom to do a Particular Thing: The Subjective Side
- 8. Belief and Information
- 9. Psychological Barriers, Autonomy, and Freedom
- 10. The Desire to Do ?
- IV. Personal Freedom
- 11. Berlin’s Five Factors
- 12. The Number and Variety of Alternatives
- 13. The Probability of the Alternatives
- 14. The Value of the Alternatives
- V. Social Liberty
- 15. The Characterization
- 16. Outlines of a Positive Libertarian Social Program
- 17. A Positive Approach to Speech
- 18. Redistribution
- 19. Left and Right Libertarianism
- VI. Criticisms of Positive Liberty
- 20. That Positive Liberty Extends the Notion to Meaninglessness
- 21. Liberty and its Conditions of Exercise
- 22. Liberty and the Conditions that Give it Worth
- 23. “Liberty” in Ordinary Language
- 24. The Special Evils of Restraint and Coercion
- 25. Human Rights, Coercion, and Non-Aid
- VII. The Value of Liberty
- 26. The Consequences of Liberty
- 27. Intrinsic Value Defined
- 28. The Intrinsic Value of Autonomy and Liberty
- 29. Value and the Structure of Positive Liberty
- 30. An Egalitarian Argument for Positive Liberty
- VIII. The Costs and Limits of Liberty
- 31. Decision Costs
- 32. Personal Costs and Paternalism
- 33. Social Costs
- 34. Individual Decision and Collective Decision
- Notes