Freedom
Subtitle: negative and positive conceptions
By: Yildiz Silier
Series: Routledge library editions. Free will and determinism -- 5
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781315203072
Subjects: Free will and determinism; Liberty; Philosophy
Description: "Isaiah Berlin made a now classic distinction between negative and positive conceptions of freedom. This book, first published in 2005, introduces a fresh way of looking at these conceptions and presents a new defence of the positive conception of freedom. Revealing how the internal debate between various versions of negative freedom give rise to hybrid conceptions of freedom which in turn are superseded by various versions of the positive conception of freedom, Silier concludes that Marx́';s concrete historical account of positive freedom resolves many of the key debates in this area and provides a fruitful framework to evaluate the freedoms and unfreedoms that are specific to capitalism."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Originally published in 2005 by Ashgate.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-175) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter Introduction; title: part Part I The Negative Conception of Freedom; title: chapter 1 Hayek's Notion of Freedom; title: chapter 2 Constraints on Freedom; title: chapter 3 Free Action, Free Person and Free Society; title: chapter 4 Limits of Negative Freedom in Capitalism; title: chapter 5 The Hybrid View; title: part Part II The Positive Conception of Freedom; title: chapter 6 Green's Notion ofFreedom; title: chapter 7 Kant on Rational Self-Determination; title: chapter 8 Hegel on Concrete Freedom; title: chapter 9 Communitarians on the Social Context of Freedom; title: chapter 10 Freedom as the Power for Self-Determination; title: chapter 11 The Historical Account: Freedoms and Unfreedoms in Capitalism.