DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Positive Liberty, Private Sphere, Determinism
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In addition, there is a police officer trying to stop you. Are you free to take it: a monster is known to be at the road. Instrumental value of freedom: means to another end (e. g. economic/utilitarian arguments for freedom) Berlin: negative freedom, freedom from interference, action/choice context, you are free to do something if no-one interferes with your doing, option-set. Impediments someone else is responsible for (e. g. culpable omission: morally wrong impediments, what makes the cause relevant, how do costs affect freedom, special case: do (just) laws restrict your freedom, coming here, i walked a red light. Intrinsically valuable: close to autonomy notions below not always clearly distinct, various forms, self-realisation. Important to acknowledge trade-offs: totalitarian menace: overriding the "empirical self, false consciousness / "forcing people to be free, retreat to the inner citadel. Claim: questions of freedom always presuppose an agent x, a constraint/obstacle y and a goal z:
