Saving Positive Freedom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6350595 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jolley Christman (0000-0002-5438-9483, Pennsylvania State University, corresponding author), John Christman (Pennsylvania State University) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79-88 |
| Publication date | 2005-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0090591704271302 |
| OpenAlex | W2161710713 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 3 |
In this article, I respond to Eric Nelson’s claim (in “Liberty: One Concept Too Many?”) that the most prominent versions of a positive concept of freedom all reduce to negative notions. I argue that in his otherwise scholarly and well-argued article, Nelson confuses a conceptual dispute with a normative one based on moral or political principle. Further, I point out that the traditional critique of positive conceptions of liberty, which rests on skepticism about perfectionist conceptions of political value, is lost if we see the debate in the way Nelson lays it out. When these issues are disentangled, I suggest that there is indeed conceptual space for uniquely “positive” conceptions of freedom, and I suggest that the idea of “autonomy” can be taken for such a notion and indeed represents a value worth taking seriously in current discussions of justice
Autonomy · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Intrinsic value (animal ethics · Law and economics · Negative liberty · Normative · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Skepticism · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
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Qualitative Freiheit
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Just Modeling? The Modeling Industry, Eating Disorders, and the Law
Ethical Standards and Alleviation of Poverty in Africa
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Arendt on Positive Freedom
Isaiah Berlin e os dois conceitos de liberdade
Sob o governo dos outros
Using Isaiah Berlin’s two concepts of liberty to rethink cultural policy
Political Freedom as an Islamic Value
Reclaiming two concepts of liberty
The Psychological Dangers of Positive Liberty
Sexual Politics and Ascriptive Autonomy
Humility, Autonomy, and Birth as a Site of Politics
Four Conceptions of Freedom
Aristotle on Liberty Rightly Understood
Freedom in mass values
What (If Anything) Is Wrong with Positive Liberty
Concepts and Consequences of Liberty
The Forms and Limits of Choice Architecture as a Tool of Government
Strategies of reframing language policy in the liberal state
Liberdade e lei no neo-republicanismo de Skinner e Pettit
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,61 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |