A Measure of Freedom

ISBN-13: 9780198294535 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 328 str.

Dr Ian Carter

Opis

This book provides the first systematic account of the nature and importance of our judgements about degrees of freedom. Author Ian Carter analyzes the normative assumptions behind the claim that individuals are entitled to a measure of freedom. He 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.

Recenzje

"Ian Carter's book on freedom is a first-rate work of political and legal philosophy. It is extraordinarily well structured, technically sophisticated, consistently illuminating, and rigorously argumentative. For those theorists (including the present reviewer) who disagree with a number of its positions, it is a volume that will amply repay critical reflection. Indeed, of the myriad books published in the twentieth century on the philosophy of freedom, Carter's is probably the best." Matthew H.Kramer, Cambridge Law Journal 2000

O autorze

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