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2018
This essay, by Alexander Livingston, analyzes Du Bois’s 1909 biography of the abolitionist John Brown as a work that reveals Du Bois’s beliefs about the meaning and limitations of sacrifice in politics. Published amid a national movement toward the “Lost Cause” narrative of the Civil War, John Brown was an indictment of this mentality, pushing readers ...
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This essay, by Alexander Livingston, analyzes Du Bois’s 1909 biography of the abolitionist John Brown as a work that reveals Du Bois’s beliefs about the meaning and limitations of sacrifice in politics. Published amid a national movement toward the “Lost Cause” narrative of the Civil War, John Brown was an indictment of this mentality, pushing readers ...
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2022
Two key arguments for the value of freedom are that freedom contributes to desire satisfaction and to personal responsibility. But what if we do not know about our freedoms? Or if we do not acknowledge each other’s freedoms? This book shows that what is really of value are the ideals of known freedom and acknowledged freedom.
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Two key arguments for the value of freedom are that freedom contributes to desire satisfaction and to personal responsibility. But what if we do not know about our freedoms? Or if we do not acknowledge each other’s freedoms? This book shows that what is really of value are the ideals of known freedom and acknowledged freedom.
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Emergency Medicine Journal, 2010
Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS ,1 the white paper published by the Department of Health in June has now been followed up with a letter from Sir David Nicholson, the English NHS' chief executive 2 that outlines transition arrangements to the new health and social care system proposed in Equity and Excellence . The white paper (61 pages long)
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Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS ,1 the white paper published by the Department of Health in June has now been followed up with a letter from Sir David Nicholson, the English NHS' chief executive 2 that outlines transition arrangements to the new health and social care system proposed in Equity and Excellence . The white paper (61 pages long)
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Political Studies, 1981
The traditional characterization of a libertarian society is that it is one which minimizes uncontracted enforcible restrictions on individual conduct. It is argued that, due to (i) the fact of necessarily finite natural resources, and (ii) the fact that human societies are composed of persons who are not exact contemporaries, i.e. of generations, this
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The traditional characterization of a libertarian society is that it is one which minimizes uncontracted enforcible restrictions on individual conduct. It is argued that, due to (i) the fact of necessarily finite natural resources, and (ii) the fact that human societies are composed of persons who are not exact contemporaries, i.e. of generations, this
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Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 2011
This article investigates Barry Hindess's distinctive interpretation of liberal political thought, and especially his analysis of liberalism’s emphasis on the normative priority of liberty. For Hindess, drawing on Foucault’s lectures on the history of early modern political thought and liberalism, liberty is an important aspect of liberal thought but ...
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This article investigates Barry Hindess's distinctive interpretation of liberal political thought, and especially his analysis of liberalism’s emphasis on the normative priority of liberty. For Hindess, drawing on Foucault’s lectures on the history of early modern political thought and liberalism, liberty is an important aspect of liberal thought but ...
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2004
AbstractIn this section, David Hume defends a compatibilist account of the relation between human freedom and necessary laws of human nature. The compatibilism itself is entirely unremarkable for a thinker influenced by the mechanist tradition; compatibilist interpretations of one form or another are offered by many mechanical philosophers, especially ...
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AbstractIn this section, David Hume defends a compatibilist account of the relation between human freedom and necessary laws of human nature. The compatibilism itself is entirely unremarkable for a thinker influenced by the mechanist tradition; compatibilist interpretations of one form or another are offered by many mechanical philosophers, especially ...
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The Liberty of Servants and the Liberty of Citizens
2011This introductory chapter examines different conceptions of liberty. If being free means that neither other individuals nor the state can prevent citizens from doing as they choose, then Italy is a free country. The problem is that liberty, if understood as an absence of impediments, is not in and of itself the liberty of citizens.
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