Maria Dimova‐cookson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4418995 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Dimova‐cookson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Dimova‐cookson |
| SIGNATURE | COOKSON M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The two modern liberties of Constant and Berlin
The paper challenges the general perception that the positive–negative freedom discourse privileges negative liberty. It demonstrates that Constant and Berlin’s dual freedom conceptual scheme contains the blueprint of a modern concept of positive freedom and it reveals the nature of negative freedom in an entirely new light. Constant’s ancient and modern liberties have many similarities with Berlin’s two concepts of freedom – positive and negativ…
Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty
This book argues that the distinction between positive and negative freedom remains highly pertinent today, despite having fallen out of fashion in the late twentieth century. It proposes a new reading of this distinction for the twenty-first century, building on the work of Constant, Green and Berlin who led the historical development of these ideas. The author defends the idea that freedom is a dynamic interaction between two inseparable, yet s…
Dialogues with Contemporary Political Theorists
A lively and engaging collection which explains the various strands of political theory, identifies key futures trends and explores the foundations of contemporary debate. Features interviews with pre
Justice as a secondary moral ideal
This paper aims to show the advantages of the personal ethics perspective employed by the British idealists in the analysis of justice. In the context of Green’s and Bosanquet’s political theory, justice is a secondary moral ideal. Yet, it is argued here, their moral philosophy leads us, through a longer path, to the philosophical grounds we already occupy today: those of thinking about human rights as fundamental, not derivative, i.e. thinking a…
Republicanism, philosophy of freedom and the history of ideas
There are many things I would like to ask you, but I would start with a question on your republican theory of liberty.This is not only due to the fact that this is where my research interests lie, but because this theory has exerted tremendous influence on contemporary political theory.It has made you a leading figure in contemporary liberal scholarship of freedom where your influence, and indeed popularity, compares to that of Isaiah Berlin.My f…
Annual Prize Announcement 2009
On the Link between the Desire to be Good and the Nature of the Good
Internalism and Externalism in Ethics Applied to the Liberal-Communitarian Debate
This article addresses the question of whether we can explain moral action in terms of an attraction to a moral ideal. It defends T. H. Green's internalist ethics against John Skorupski's externalist claim that moral ideals are optional whereas moral duties are not. A parallel is drawn between the Internalism and Externalism debate in ethics and the liberal-communitarian debate in political theory. My defence of Internalism offers new arguments i…
Conceptual Clarity, Freedom, and Normative Ideas
Adrian Blau makes three main criticisms of my article on positive and negative freedom.1 First, that the positive-negative freedom distinction is superfluous because it fails to address any important normative arguments. Secondly, that my interpretation of T. H. Green is wrong in certain respects. Thirdly, he claims that my ‘normative analysis does not always convince’.2 I see two reason’s for Blau’s first charge. To start with, Blau does not bel…
A New Scheme of Positive and Negative Freedom
This article offers a new scheme of the relation between positive and negative freedom that is based on a retrieval of T. H. Green's theory of freedom and on further reconstructions of his theory. Some of the distinctions in the literature have proven difficult to sustain, and this has resulted in a weakening of the dichotomy in principle, and of the concepts of positive and negative freedom independently of each other. The main distinction betwe…
T. H. Green’s Moral and Political Philosophy
This book offers a new phenomenological, interpretation of T.H. Green's (1836-1882) philosophy and political theory. By analysing in turn his theory of human practice, the moral idea, the common good
A New Scheme of Positive and Negative Freedom
This article offers a new scheme of the relation between positive and negative freedom that is based on a retrieval of T. H. Green's theory of freedom and on further reconstructions of his theory. Some of the distinctions in the literature have proven difficult to sustain, and this has resulted in a weakening of the dichotomy in principle, and of the concepts of positive and negative freedom independently of each other. The main distinction betwe…
Republicanism, philosophy of freedom and the history of ideas
There are many things I would like to ask you, but I would start with a question on your republican theory of liberty.This is not only due to the fact that this is where my research interests lie, but because this theory has exerted tremendous influence on contemporary political theory.It has made you a leading figure in contemporary liberal scholarship of freedom where your influence, and indeed popularity, compares to that of Isaiah Berlin.My f…
Conceptual Clarity, Freedom, and Normative Ideas
Adrian Blau makes three main criticisms of my article on positive and negative freedom.1 First, that the positive-negative freedom distinction is superfluous because it fails to address any important normative arguments. Secondly, that my interpretation of T. H. Green is wrong in certain respects. Thirdly, he claims that my ‘normative analysis does not always convince’.2 I see two reason’s for Blau’s first charge. To start with, Blau does not bel…
Justice as a secondary moral ideal
This paper aims to show the advantages of the personal ethics perspective employed by the British idealists in the analysis of justice. In the context of Green’s and Bosanquet’s political theory, justice is a secondary moral ideal. Yet, it is argued here, their moral philosophy leads us, through a longer path, to the philosophical grounds we already occupy today: those of thinking about human rights as fundamental, not derivative, i.e. thinking a…
On the Link between the Desire to be Good and the Nature of the Good
Internalism and Externalism in Ethics Applied to the Liberal-Communitarian Debate
This article addresses the question of whether we can explain moral action in terms of an attraction to a moral ideal. It defends T. H. Green's internalist ethics against John Skorupski's externalist claim that moral ideals are optional whereas moral duties are not. A parallel is drawn between the Internalism and Externalism debate in ethics and the liberal-communitarian debate in political theory. My defence of Internalism offers new arguments i…
T. H. Green’s Moral and Political Philosophy
This book offers a new phenomenological, interpretation of T.H. Green's (1836-1882) philosophy and political theory. By analysing in turn his theory of human practice, the moral idea, the common good
A New Scheme of Positive and Negative Freedom
This article offers a new scheme of the relation between positive and negative freedom that is based on a retrieval of T. H. Green's theory of freedom and on further reconstructions of his theory. Some of the distinctions in the literature have proven difficult to sustain, and this has resulted in a weakening of the dichotomy in principle, and of the concepts of positive and negative freedom independently of each other. The main distinction betwe…
Conceptual Clarity, Freedom, and Normative Ideas
Adrian Blau makes three main criticisms of my article on positive and negative freedom.1 First, that the positive-negative freedom distinction is superfluous because it fails to address any important normative arguments. Secondly, that my interpretation of T. H. Green is wrong in certain respects. Thirdly, he claims that my ‘normative analysis does not always convince’.2 I see two reason’s for Blau’s first charge. To start with, Blau does not bel…
Internalism and Externalism in Ethics Applied to the Liberal-Communitarian Debate
This article addresses the question of whether we can explain moral action in terms of an attraction to a moral ideal. It defends T. H. Green's internalist ethics against John Skorupski's externalist claim that moral ideals are optional whereas moral duties are not. A parallel is drawn between the Internalism and Externalism debate in ethics and the liberal-communitarian debate in political theory. My defence of Internalism offers new arguments i…
On the Link between the Desire to be Good and the Nature of the Good
Republicanism, philosophy of freedom and the history of ideas
There are many things I would like to ask you, but I would start with a question on your republican theory of liberty.This is not only due to the fact that this is where my research interests lie, but because this theory has exerted tremendous influence on contemporary political theory.It has made you a leading figure in contemporary liberal scholarship of freedom where your influence, and indeed popularity, compares to that of Isaiah Berlin.My f…
Annual Prize Announcement 2009
Justice as a secondary moral ideal
This paper aims to show the advantages of the personal ethics perspective employed by the British idealists in the analysis of justice. In the context of Green’s and Bosanquet’s political theory, justice is a secondary moral ideal. Yet, it is argued here, their moral philosophy leads us, through a longer path, to the philosophical grounds we already occupy today: those of thinking about human rights as fundamental, not derivative, i.e. thinking a…
Dialogues with Contemporary Political Theorists
A lively and engaging collection which explains the various strands of political theory, identifies key futures trends and explores the foundations of contemporary debate. Features interviews with pre
Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty
This book argues that the distinction between positive and negative freedom remains highly pertinent today, despite having fallen out of fashion in the late twentieth century. It proposes a new reading of this distinction for the twenty-first century, building on the work of Constant, Green and Berlin who led the historical development of these ideas. The author defends the idea that freedom is a dynamic interaction between two inseparable, yet s…
The two modern liberties of Constant and Berlin
The paper challenges the general perception that the positive–negative freedom discourse privileges negative liberty. It demonstrates that Constant and Berlin’s dual freedom conceptual scheme contains the blueprint of a modern concept of positive freedom and it reveals the nature of negative freedom in an entirely new light. Constant’s ancient and modern liberties have many similarities with Berlin’s two concepts of freedom – positive and negativ…
Political science (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Negative liberty (5 works)