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A measure of freedom / Ian Carter.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999Description: xi, 310 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0198294530
  • 9780198294535
  • 0199267499
  • 9780199267491
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.44 21
LOC classification:
  • JC585 CAR 2004
Contents:
1. The Concept of Overall Freedom -- 2. The Value of Freedom -- 3. The Distribution of Freedom -- 4. Reflective Equilibrium -- 5. The Value-Based Approach -- 6. Self-Mastery -- 7. Individual Freedom: Actions -- 8. Individual Freedom: Constraints -- 9. Group Freedom -- 10. Indicators of Freedom.
Review: "How do we know when one person or society is 'freer' than another? Can freedom be measured? Is more freedom better than less? This book provides the first full-length treatment of these fundamental yet neglected issues, throwing new light both on the notion of freedom and on contemporary liberalism."--BOOK JACKET.Review: "Ian Carter provides the first systematic account of the nature and importance of our judgements about degrees of freedom. He begins with an analysis of the normative assumptions behind the claim that individuals are entitled to a measure of freedom, and then goes on to ask whether it is indeed conceptually possible to measure freedom." "Adopting a coherentist approach, the author argues for a conception of freedom that not only reflects commonly held intuitions about who is freer than whom but is also compatible with a liberal or freedom-based theory of justice."--BOOK JACKET.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 323.44 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A516954B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The Concept of Overall Freedom -- 2. The Value of Freedom -- 3. The Distribution of Freedom -- 4. Reflective Equilibrium -- 5. The Value-Based Approach -- 6. Self-Mastery -- 7. Individual Freedom: Actions -- 8. Individual Freedom: Constraints -- 9. Group Freedom -- 10. Indicators of Freedom.

"How do we know when one person or society is 'freer' than another? Can freedom be measured? Is more freedom better than less? This book provides the first full-length treatment of these fundamental yet neglected issues, throwing new light both on the notion of freedom and on contemporary liberalism."--BOOK JACKET.

"Ian Carter provides the first systematic account of the nature and importance of our judgements about degrees of freedom. He begins with an analysis of the normative assumptions behind the claim that individuals are entitled to a measure of freedom, and then goes on to ask whether it is indeed conceptually possible to measure freedom." "Adopting a coherentist approach, the author argues for a conception of freedom that not only reflects commonly held intuitions about who is freer than whom but is also compatible with a liberal or freedom-based theory of justice."--BOOK JACKET.

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