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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... least in part, by an adequate political philosophy. Contemporary advocates of the welfare state tend to share an unfortunate commitment to utilitarianism—an excessive emphasis on what people want and how to get it to them, as opposed to ...
... least, Berlin was one of the few respected defenders. Berlin is widely said to have reopened the entire field of political philosophy with his “Two Concepts of Liberty” in the late 1950s. He also, I think, helped open the way for such ...
... least, as the “tutor” cares sincerely about her charge's best interests? Tutelage is the relationship our parents have over us, which, when it works well, is something that provides us with comfort and support. We are certainly unfree ...
... least much reduce, our risk of falling. If we felt that people discovered true wisdom with age, that our parents, and elders in general, were connected to deep truths handed down from the past,6 then we might be willing to live under ...
... least, “judge” is a word whose meaning is dominated by its legal heritage, and in law—as opposed to mathematics, physics, and the like—the conclusions to which one comes will always be open to further debate. To grasp the nature of ...
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