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A Measure of Freedom (Paperback)
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A Measure of Freedom (Paperback)
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It is often said that one person or society is 'freer' than
another, or that people have a right to equal freedom, or that
freedom should be increased or even maximized. Such quantitative
claims about freedom are of great importance to us, forming an
essential part of our political discourse and theorizing. Yet their
meaning has been surprisingly neglected by political philosophers
until now. Ian Carter provides the first systematic account of the
nature and importance of our judgements about degrees of freedom.
He begins with an analysis of the normative assumptions behind the
claim that individuals are entitled to a measure of freedom, and
then goes on to ask whether it is indeed conceptually possible to
measure freedom. Adopting a coherentist approach, the author argues
for a conception of freedom that not only reflects commonly held
intuitions about who is freer than whom but is also compatible with
a liberal or freedom-based theory of justice.
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