Freedom: An Introduction with Readings,9780415212465

Freedom: An Introduction with Readings

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ISBN13: 9780415212465
ISBN10: 0415212464
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-10-19
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

Warburton assesses the key arguments for and against individual freedom in this book. Each chapter considers a fundamental argument on individual freedom, including the concepts of negative and positive freedom, freedom of belief, the Harm Principle, and freedom of speech and expression. With readings from Mill, Berlin and Taylor.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Two concepts of freedom
1(24)
Freedom and belief
25(18)
The Harm Principle
43(20)
Freedom of speech
63(28)
`Experiments of living'
91(20)
Positive freedom
111(16)
Readings
`Two Concepts of Liberty'
127(10)
Isaiah Berlin
`Locke: toleration and the rationality of persecution'
137(12)
Jeremy Waldron
`The place of liberty'
149(18)
Jonathan Wolff
`Law, morality and the freedom of expression'
167(12)
Bernard Williams et al.
`Liberty and pornography'
179(10)
Ronald Dworkin
`Immorality and treason'
189(6)
H.L.A. Hart
`Philosophical approaches to criminalization: consent and the harm principle'
195(8)
`What's wrong with negative liberty'
203(16)
Charles Taylor
Appendix: Reasoning 219(16)
Answers to exercises 235(6)
Revision test 241(6)
Answers to revision test 247(2)
Bibliography 249(2)
Index 251

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