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The Liberty of the Liberty Principle
Res Publica, 2020Mill’s Liberty Principle aims to protect ‘social’ freedom, which is traditionally understood as negative freedom. I argue that Mill’s conception of social freedom does not comfortably fit even a moralized conception of negative freedom, and that individuality, an ideal fundamental to On Liberty, is a robustly positive type of freedom.
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Republican Liberty as Liberty within Rights
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020Abstract What is the relationship between republican liberty and rights? The received view is that republican liberty is conceptually distinct from rights enjoyment. This chapter argues that republican liberty just is liberty within rights. Rights enjoyment is necessary and sufficient for republican liberty.
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2020
Abstract This chapter studies how liberty in the law evolved from being attached to a collective, metaphorical body—the medieval corporation—to being rooted instead in the individual body across a range of practices in seventeenth century Europe.
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Abstract This chapter studies how liberty in the law evolved from being attached to a collective, metaphorical body—the medieval corporation—to being rooted instead in the individual body across a range of practices in seventeenth century Europe.
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Economica, 1992
The major purpose of the paper is a comparison of social-choice formulations of liberty with game-form formulations. The set of admissible strategies of different people cannot be considered independently of each other, and a person's "private sphere" has to be defined by identifying permissible combinations of strategies.
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The major purpose of the paper is a comparison of social-choice formulations of liberty with game-form formulations. The set of admissible strategies of different people cannot be considered independently of each other, and a person's "private sphere" has to be defined by identifying permissible combinations of strategies.
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1986
SHOULD a sport as brutal as boxing be allowed to exist in civilized society? Is a ban on boxing an excessive restraint of individual freedom? We perhaps could all agree that there should exist a certain minimal area of personal freedom that must not be violated or else the individual will be so confined that he is unable to develop his individuality ...
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SHOULD a sport as brutal as boxing be allowed to exist in civilized society? Is a ban on boxing an excessive restraint of individual freedom? We perhaps could all agree that there should exist a certain minimal area of personal freedom that must not be violated or else the individual will be so confined that he is unable to develop his individuality ...
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2022
This book shows how the Jay family, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, embodied the contradictions of the revolutionary age. The Jays of New York were a preeminent founding family. John Jay, diplomat, Supreme Court justice, and coauthor of the Federalist Papers, and his children and grandchildren helped chart the course of the Early American ...
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This book shows how the Jay family, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, embodied the contradictions of the revolutionary age. The Jays of New York were a preeminent founding family. John Jay, diplomat, Supreme Court justice, and coauthor of the Federalist Papers, and his children and grandchildren helped chart the course of the Early American ...
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2021
This essay argues that both George Washington and Mercy Otis Warren understood their experiences of the Revolutionary era through a shared discourse of classical republicanism, a set of beliefs that interpreted modern events in terms of their continuities with ancient Greece and Rome.
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This essay argues that both George Washington and Mercy Otis Warren understood their experiences of the Revolutionary era through a shared discourse of classical republicanism, a set of beliefs that interpreted modern events in terms of their continuities with ancient Greece and Rome.
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2020
According to Ronald Dworkin, there is a difference between (moral/legal) rules and (moral/legal) principles. Rules describe a certain situation (legal facts) and provide that in a case where this situation occurs, a certain legal consequence should follow. In contrast, principles do not determine the outcome of the case.
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According to Ronald Dworkin, there is a difference between (moral/legal) rules and (moral/legal) principles. Rules describe a certain situation (legal facts) and provide that in a case where this situation occurs, a certain legal consequence should follow. In contrast, principles do not determine the outcome of the case.
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