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This book explores, within a liberal framework, the nature, significance, and justification of political freedom or liberty. Against recent liberal positions, it is argued that political morality is neither rights-based, nor equality-based. What underlies rights, and the value of freedom, is a conce...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Raz, Joseph
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford Univ. Press, ©1986.
Colección:UPSO - Oxford University Press E-Books.
Temas:
Liberty.
Authority.
Freedom
Liberté.
Autorité.
freedom.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Vrijheid.
Individu en samenleving.
Equality & freedom > Sociopolitical aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • 1. THE PROBLEM OF POLITICAL FREEDOM
  • 1. A Journey of Exploration
  • 2. The Importance of Politics
  • 3. The Revisionist Challenge
  • 4. The Presumption of Liberty
  • 5. The Simple Principle
  • 6. The Inadequacy of Linguistic Analysis
  • 7. Liberalism and Individualism
  • I. The Bounds of Authority
  • 2. AUTHORITY AND REASON
  • 1. Authority and Justified Power
  • 2. The Recognitional Conception
  • 3. The Inspirational Conception
  • 4. Content-Independent Reasons
  • 3. THE JUSTIFICATION OF AUTHORITY
  • 1. 'Surrendering One's Judgement'
  • 2. The Dependence Thesis
  • 3. The Justification of Authority
  • 4. The Pre-emptive Thesis
  • 5. Objections
  • 4. THE AUTHORITY OF STATES
  • 1. The Normal Justification of Political Authority
  • 2. Consent
  • 3. Consent as the Foundation of Authority
  • 4. Respect for Law
  • 5. The Political Obligation
  • II. Anti-Perfectionism
  • 5. NEUTRAL POLITICAL CONCERN
  • 1. Forms of Neutrality
  • 2. The Impossibility of Strict Political Neutrality
  • 3. Neutrality and the Social Role of Justice
  • 4. From Neutrality to Pluralism
  • 6. THE EXCLUSION OF IDEALS
  • 1. Preliminaries
  • 2. Political Welfarism.
  • 3. Treating People as Ends
  • 4. Coercion and Autonomy
  • 5. On Some Underlying Intuitions
  • III. Individualistic Freedom: Liberty and Rights
  • 7. THE NATURE OF RIGHTS
  • 1. Rights: The Main Features
  • 2. Core and Derivative Rights
  • 3. The Correlativity of Rights and Duties
  • 4. Holding Individuals to be Under a Duty
  • 5. Promises and Agreements
  • 6. Capacity for Rights
  • 7. Rights and Interests
  • 8. Rights and Duties
  • 9. The Importance of Rights
  • 8. RIGHT-BASED MORALITIES
  • 1. Some Preliminary Doubts
  • 2. Rights and Individualism
  • 3. Autonomy and Rights
  • 4. Collective Rights.
  • 5. Intrinsic Duties
  • 6. Rights and Narrow Morality
  • 9. EQUALITY
  • 1. The Problem
  • 2. Equality as Universal Entitlement
  • 3. Principles of Equal Distribution in Conflict
  • 4. Egalitarian Principles
  • 5. Rhetorical Egalitarianism
  • 6. Strict Egalitarianism
  • 7. The Presuppositions of Egalitarianism
  • 8. The Rejection of Egalitarianism
  • 10. LIBERTY AND RIGHTS
  • 1. Is Liberty Based on Rights?
  • 2. The Collective Aspect of Liberal Rights
  • 3. An Alternative View of Constitutional Rights
  • IV. Society and Value
  • 11. CONSEQUENTIALISM: AN INTRODUCTION.
  • 1. Consequentialism: Some Common Themes
  • 2. Separateness of Persons: Trade-Offs
  • 3. Separateness of Persons: Agent-Neutrality
  • 4. Separateness of Persons: Integrity
  • 12. PERSONAL WELL-BEING
  • 1. Personal Goals
  • 2. Well-Being and Self-Interest
  • 3. Goals and Reasons
  • 4. The Primacy of Action Reasons
  • 5. Social Forms
  • 6. The Inseparability of Morality and Well-Being
  • 13. INCOMMENSURABILITY
  • 1. The Concept
  • 2. Incommensurability and Rough Equality
  • 3. Denying Comparability
  • 4. The Incomparability of Comprehensive Goals
  • 5. Constitutive Incommensurabilities.

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