A Measure of Freedom

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-19-829453-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 322 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 652 g

It is often said that one person or society is `freer' than another, or that people have a right to equal freedom, or that freedom should be increased or even maximized. Such quantitative claims about freedom are of great importance to us, forming an essential part of our political discourse and theorizing. Yet their meaning has been surprisingly neglected by political philosophers until now.

Ian Carter provides the first systematic account of the nature and importance of our judgements about degrees of freedom. He begins with an analysis of the normative assumptions behind the claim that individuals are entitled to a measure of freedom, and then goes on to ask whether it is indeed conceptually possible to measure freedom. Adopting a coherentist approach, the author argues for a conception of freedom that not only reflects commonly held intuitions about who is freer than who but is also compatible with a liberal or freedom-based theory of justice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carter, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- PART I: JUSTICE AND OVERALL FREEDOM

- 1: The Concept of Overall Freedom

- 2: The Value of Freedom

- 3: The Distribution of Freedom

- 4: Reflective Equilibrium

- PART II: VALUE-BASED FREEDOM

- 5: The Value-Based Approach

- 6: Self-Mastery

- PART III: EMPIRICAL FREEDOM

- 7: Individual Freedom: Actions

- 8: Individual Freedom: Constraints

- 9: Group Freedom

- 10: Indicators of Freedom

- Conclusion

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Research Fellow at the Department of Politics at the Universita di Pavia, Italy