A Third Concept of Liberty: Judgment and Freedom in Kant and Adam SmithPrinceton University Press, 1999. márc. 15. - 338 oldal 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 thought of Kant and Smith, and developing his own stand through readings of the Critique of Judgment and The Wealth of Nations, Fleischacker shows how different acting on one's best judgment is from acting on one's desires--how, in particular, good judgment, as opposed to mere desire, can flourish only in favorable social and political conditions. At the same time, exercising judgment is something every individual must do for him- or herself, hence not something that philosophers and politicians who reason better than the rest of us can do in our stead. |
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... arguments or theories, and the notion that the history of such a cluster is crucial to defining what it amounts to, should themselves make clear that this book has been inspired in more than its title by Isaiah Berlin. Berlin died just ...
... argued that liberalism in the sense of a concern for liberty is the only appropriate mode of politics in the modern age. What marks modernity, so goes the argument, is the loss of any substantial agreement about what constitutes the ...
... argue! The officer says: Don't argue, get on parade! The tax-official: Don't argue, pay! The clergyman: Don't argue, believe! . . . All this means restrictions on freedom everywhere. Kant, “What is Enlightenment?” (E 36–7/55) The third ...
... argue, that a third concept of liberty can be found, a concept richer than the absence from constraint and manipulation that has obsessed upholders of negative liberty, and more sensible, as well as less dangerous, than the obsession ...
... argument. Like Berlin, I believe that to grasp the nature of a concept, one must grasp, among other things, the effect of ... argue that judgment is a complex skill that draws on what we do in aesthetic interpretation, in sorting through ...
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