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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... Theory of the Moral Sentiments. I was struck by the way much of it seemed to look forward to Kant and, after ... theories? 1989 was of course an auspicious year to take an interest in the philosophy of economics. As the summer moved into ...
... 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 as I was ...
... Theory of Moral Sentiments, ed. D. D. Raphael and A. L. Macfie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976). First published in 1759. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, ed. R. H. Campbell, A. S. Skinner, and ...
... –1785. “On the Common Saying: 'This May be True in Theory, But it does not Apply in Practice,'” in Kant's Political Writings; first published in 1793. A THIRD CONCEPT OF LIBERTY Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION A “ xiv ABBREVIATIONS.
... theory, real experience with the particulars to which it is applied is necessary to do it well. One becomes an expert judge of a thing by encountering it often and making judgments about it that other people witness and correct. At home ...
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