Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty

ISBN-13: 9780367777180 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 252 str.

Maria Dimova-Cookson

Opis

This book argues that the distinction between positive and negative freedom remains highly pertinent today, despite having fallen out of fashion in the late twentieth century and builds on the work of Constant, Green and Berlin who led the historical development of these ideas.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Benjamin Constant on modern people and their two liberties  2. T.H. Green’s true freedom as the paradigm positive liberty concept  3. T.H. Green and negative freedom as well-being improvement  4. Isaiah Berlin, positive freedom and the impact of moral authorities on human agency  5. Berlin’s negative freedom and the conceptual work of the boundaries of liberty  6. Value pluralism and the duality of freedom.  Conclusion

O autorze

Maria Dimova-Cookson is Associate Professor in Politics at the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, UK.