PHI 2183 Lecture Notes - Philosophical Anarchism, Positive Liberty, Tyrant
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Liberalism treats liberty as a central value, political restrictions on liberty (laws) must be justified by those who wish to put in place such laws, critics (communitarians, perfectionists, and intuitionists) - it overemphasis liberty at the. April 1, 2014 expense of other values: liberal ideology is itself fractured. Political obligation < (duty to obey the laws) is a problem for liberalism. Coercion implies the interference of other human beings upon your liberty. Negative liberty: liberty is the absence of interferences. Republican liberty: liberty-protecting government ensures that no agent, including itself, has arbitrary power over citizens equal disbursement of power. The mere possibility of interference is seen as a limitation on liberty. Classic liberalism private property and individual liberty are directly intertwined. People are free to negotiate contracts and sell their labor as they see fit. Private property is the only effective means of protecting liberty. Contract tradition tries to make authority/legitimacy depend on consent.