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The Quality of Freedom (Paperback)
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At least since the publication of Isaiah Berlin's famous essay "Two
Concepts of Liberty" nearly half a century ago, political
philosophers have argued vigorously over the relative merits of
"positive" and "negative" accounts of freedom. Matthew Kramer
writes squarely within the negative-liberty tradition, but he
incorporates a number of ideas that are quite often associated with
theories of positive liberty. Much of The Quality of Freedom is
devoted to elaborating the necessary and sufficient conditions for
the existence of particular freedoms and unfreedoms; however, the
book's cardinal objective is to establish the measurability of each
person's overall freedom and of each society's aggregate freedom.
On the one hand, Kramer contends that the existence of any
particular instance of liberty or unfreedom is a matter of fact
that can be confirmed or disconfirmed without any reliance on
evaluative or normative considerations. On the other hand, he
argues that the extent of each person's overall freedom or
unfreedom cannot be ascertained entirely in the absence of
evaluative assumptions. By combining those two positions and
developing them in detail, Kramer pits himself against all positive
accounts of liberty and most negative accounts. In the course of so
doing, he aims to demonstrate the rigorous measurability of overall
liberty - something that many writers on freedom have casually
dismissed as impossible. Although Kramer concentrates principally
on constructing a systematic analysis of sociopolitical freedom, he
engages critically with the work of many of the leading
contemporary writers on the topic.
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