PO301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ternary Relation
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Maccallum: freedom as a triadic relation - x is free from y to do/be z, where x is the agent, y the constraint and z the goal. Therefore disagreement previously thought to be about types of freedom but about what sorts of things are appropriate to be x, y or z. For hobbes, the agent is an individual human being - the empirical self. Rousseau would argue however, that the autonomous self is what we are concerned with, the rational, authentic desires and aims of the individual. These can include physical obstacles, human interference and coercion, as well as social norms and patterns of behaviour i. e. the market or cultures. View that poverty is not a constraint on freedom: libertarian view. Markets operate in ways that are analogous to laws governing natural processes - outcomes of free operation of the market are not caused by intentional action, but by operation of laws akin to laws governing the natural world.
