A Third Concept of Liberty : Judgment and Freedom in Kant and Adam Smith

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Taking the title of his book from Isaiah Berlin's famous essay distinguishing a negative concept of liberty connoting lack of interference by others from a positive concept involving participation in the political realm, Samuel Fleischacker explores a third definition of liberty that lies betwe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fleischacker, Samuel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Smith, Adam, > 1723-1790
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804
Smith, Adam, > 1723-1790.
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804.
Law, Politics & Government.
Political Science.
Political Theory of the State.
Liberty.
Judgment (Ethics)
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Free Will & Determinism.
freedom.
Jugement (Morale)
Liberte.
Freedom
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Taking the title of his book from Isaiah Berlin's famous essay distinguishing a negative concept of liberty connoting lack of interference by others from a positive concept involving participation in the political realm, Samuel Fleischacker explores a third definition of liberty that lies between the first two. In Fleischacker's view, Kant and Adam Smith think of liberty as a matter of acting on our capacity for judgment, thereby differing both from those who tie it to the satisfaction of our desires and those who translate it as action in accordance with reason or "will." Integrating the thou.
Physical Description:1 online resource (338 pages).
ISBN:9781400822942

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