Essays about: "Urmas Pappel"

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  1. 1. THE OTHER SIDE OF FREEDOM: CONCEPTS OF LIBERTY IN CHINESE ORTHODOX PHILOSOPHY FROM 1980 TO 2002

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Urmas Pappel; [2011]
    Keywords : China; orthodoxy; intellectuals; freedom; negative liberty and positive liberty; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Chinese orthodox philosophy is often described as communitarian and characterised by the concept of positive freedom, which, defined by Isaiah Berlin's two concepts of liberty, deems it necessity to curb individual freedom for the good of a community. Still, some orthodox Chinese writers also use aspects of negative freedom, insisting on a sphere of individual freedom that no authority can curb, and thereby seem to defy the categorisation as wholly communitarian. READ MORE