The theory of justice is one of the most intensely debated areas of contemporary philosophy. Most theories of justice, however, have only attained their high level of justification at great cost. By focusing on purely normative, abstract principles, they become detached from the…
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A dazzling comparison of two rival theories about the nature of human liberty
"Hobbes and Republican Liberty is an extended essay that develops several of the theme announced by Quentin Skinner in his famous inaugural lecture on 'Liberty before Liberalism' of 1998. Cogent, engaged, accessible and indeed exhilarating, this new book will appeal to readers o…
"Hobbes and Republican Liberty is an extended essay that develops several of the theme announced by Quentin Skinner in his famous inaugural lecture on 'Liberty before Liberalism' of 1998, Cogent, engaged, accessible and indeed exhilarating, this new book will appeal to readers o…
In this book, the author introduces a fresh way of looking at these conceptions and presents a new defence of the positive conception of freedom. This book examines the thought of the paradigm thinkers, F.A. Hayek on negative freedom and T.H. Green on positive freedom.
"What is freedom?, for a long time this has been the question I was most curious about. I thought that in order to be free, I first needed to know what freedom meant. Is it merely satisfaction of desires without being interfered with by others?" --p. 1.
