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Additive View
anti-paternalism
arguments for personal liberty
auonomy
Author_Simon R. Clarke
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Challenge Model
Chopin
Clarke
Coercive Paternalism
Content Independent Reasons
Cumulative Case
Desire Satisfaction Account
Desire Satisfaction View
Endorsement Constraint
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ethical liberalism
Good Life
Independent Standards
individual welfare
law
legal
liberty
Locke's Argument
moral
Moral Paternalism
moral philosophy
Non-autonomous Life
personal autonomy
philosophy
politics
Preference Satisfaction Account
Rational Deliberation
Reasonable Trust
self-determination theory
self-development
Subtractive View
theory
Trust Argument
Trust Condition
Valuable Social Forms
Vice Versa
Watch Television Soap Operas
Worthless Activities
Worthwhile Life
Product details
- ISBN 9781138117006
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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What makes individual freedom valuable? People have always believed in freedom, have sought it, and have sometimes fought and died for it. The belief that it is something to be valued is widespread. But does this belief have a rational foundation?
This book examines answers to these questions that are based on the welfare of the person whose freedom is at stake. There are various conceptions of a worthwhile life, a life that is valuable for the person whose life it is. These conceptions will be examined to see whether they are plausible and what their connection, if any, is to freedom. Are they compelling foundations for freedom? Does freedom make a person’s life better or would his/her welfare be advanced by restricting freedom?
Simon R. Clarke is an independent scholar. He received his doctorate from Oxford University and was a lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand for seven years. He has also taught at the University of Nottingham and been a visiting scholar at Princeton University and Columbia Law School.
