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A Third Concept of Liberty: Judgment and Freedom in Kant and Adam Smith

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A Third Concept of Liberty: Judgment and Freedom in Kant and Adam Smith - Fleischacker, Samuel
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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 ...

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A Third Concept of Liberty: Judgment and Freedom in Kant and Adam Smith 1999, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691004464

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A Third Concept of Liberty: Judgment and Freedom in Kant and Adam Smith 1999, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691002651

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