Essays about: "Positive Liberty"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words Positive Liberty.

  1. 1. On Nondomination : A comparative study on the distinctiveness and the preferability of freedom as nondomination vis-à-vis freedom as noninterference

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Amin Baledi; [2021]
    Keywords : neo-Roman republicanism; nondomination; arbitrary power; pure negative liberty; noninterference; overall liberty;

    Abstract : The recent years have seen the revival of neo-Roman republicanism through the works of Philip Pettit, who has replaced Isaiah Berlin’s taxonomy of positive/negative liberty with freedom as nondomination. This essay compares the neo-Roman conception of nondomination to the liberal conception of noninterference, with the purpose of clarifying whether nondomination is a distinct concept of liberty and preferable to that of noninterference. READ MORE

  3. 2. Landskapsarkitekturen bakom galler

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Karin Schedin; [2020]
    Keywords : kriminalvård; fängelseanstalt; fängelse; välgörande grönska; trädgårdsterapi;

    Abstract : I Sverige sitter cirka 4400 personer frihetsberövade på någon av Sveriges fängelser. Frihetsberövandet utgör en belastning för individen och kan utlösa krissituationer med självskadande handlingar som följd. READ MORE

  4. 3. What do consumers say? : Exploring Consumers' Opinion on Femvertising in Fashion

    University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi

    Author : Anjali Acharya; Lycke Ristimäki; [2019]
    Keywords : femvertising; consumer opinion; fashion advertising; social effects; feminism; gender role;

    Abstract : Fashion advertising has long been repudiated for fostering narrow and stereotypical imagery of women. Today consumers demand advertisements to be inclusive and real in their portrayals. READ MORE

  5. 4. A proposition for a general theory of ideology

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Eric Taylor; [2018]
    Keywords : Ideology; Liberty; Change; Negative Liberty; Republican Liberty; Positive Liberty; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This is a paper proposing a general theory of ideology based on two theoretical components, liberty and change. Liberty is seen as a system for understanding the individual and its relation to the group, change is seen as a system for understanding our future prospects. READ MORE

  6. 5. Images of an Intervention : A semiotic study of the Swedish Armed Forces' depiction of its military involvement in Afghanistan

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/JMK

    Author : Joakim Höjer; [2016]
    Keywords : Orientalism; semiotic; image analysis; Said; women in war; propaganda; euro-centrism; conflict; military; Sweden; Afghanistan; Orientalism; semiotik; bildanalys; Said; kvinnor i krig; propaganda; euro-centrism; konflikt; militär; Sverige; Afghanistan;

    Abstract : The increasingly universal information society has required also the Swedish Armed Forces to participate in the information flow, for example by publishing images from its operations in an open digital image archive. With use of the image archive’s photographs from the Swedish Armed Forces’ military operations in Afghanistan in 2011 and 2012, the study seeks to examine the way in which the Swedish army depicts its involvement in the region. READ MORE