A Third Concept of Liberty - Couverture souple

Fleischacker, Samuel

 
9780691004464: A Third Concept of Liberty
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0691004463 ISBN 13 : 9780691004464
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Taking the title of his book from Isaiah Berlin's famous essay distinguishing a negative concept of liberty connoting lack of interference by others from a positive concept involving participation in the political realm, Samuel Fleischacker explores a third definition of liberty that lies between the first two. In Fleischacker's view, Kant and Adam Smith think of liberty as a matter of acting on our capacity for judgment, thereby differing both from those who tie it to the satisfaction of our desires and those who translate it as action in accordance with reason or "will" Integrating the thought of Kant and Smith, and developing his own stand through readings of the Critique of Judgment and The Wealth of Nations, Fleischacker shows how different acting on one's best judgment is from acting on one's desires-how, in particular, good judgment, as opposed to mere desire, can flourish only in favorable social and political conditions. At the same time, exercising judgment is something every individual must do for him- or herself, hence not something that philosophers and politicians who reason better than the rest of us can do in our stead. For this reason advocates of a liberty based on judgment are likely to be more concerned than are libertarians to make sure that government provides people with conditions for the use of their liberty-for example, excellent standards of education, health care, and unemployment insurance-while at the same time promoting a less paternalistic view of government than most of the movements associated for the past thirty years with the political left.

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À propos de l?auteur

Samuel Fleischacker is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago and the author of Integrity and Moral Relativism and The Ethics of Culture.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691004463
ISBN 13 
9780691004464
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780691002651: A Third Concept of Liberty: Judgment and Freedom in Kant and Adam Smith

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0691002657 ISBN 13 :  9780691002651
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1999
Couverture rigide