A Third Concept of Liberty. Judgment and Freedom in Kant and Adam Smith - Fleischacker, Samuel
judgment and freedom in Kant and Adam Smith
KORTE INHOUD
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 fo...
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1999Uitgever: Princeton University Press,, New Jersey USA336 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0691004463ISBN-13: 9780691004464Koop dit boek tweedehands
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