Essays about: "negative liberty and positive liberty"
Found 3 essays containing the words negative liberty and positive liberty.
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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 samhällsstudierAbstract : 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
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2. A proposition for a general theory of ideology
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : 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
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3. 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 sydöstasienstudierAbstract : 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
