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A Social Theory of Freedom (Paperback)
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A Social Theory of Freedom (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
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In A Social Theory of Freedom, Mariam Thalos argues that the theory
of human freedom should be a broadly social and political theory,
rather than a theory that places itself in opposition to the issue
of determinism. Thalos rejects the premise that a theory of freedom
is fundamentally a theory of the metaphysics of constraint and,
instead, lays out a political conception of freedom that is closely
aligned with questions of social identity, self-development in
contexts of intimate relationships, and social solidarity. Thalos
argues that whether a person is free (in any context) depends upon
a certain relationship of fit between that agent's conception of
themselves (both present and future), on the one hand, and the
facts of their circumstances, on the other. Since relationships of
fit are broadly logical, freedom is a logic-it is the logic of fit
between one's aspirations and one's circumstances, what Thalos
calls the logic of agency. The logic of agency, once fleshed out,
becomes a broadly social and political theory that encompasses
one's self-conceptions as well as how these self-conceptions are
generated, together with how they fit with the circumstances of
one's life. The theory of freedom proposed in this volume is
fundamentally a political one.
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