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Freedom's values: The good and the right
How is freedom valuable? And how should we go about defining freedom? In this essay, I discuss a distinction between two general ways of valuing freedom: one appeals to the good (e.g., to freedom's contribution to well‐being); the other appeals to how persons have reason to treat one another in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10087774/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37064415 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/theo.12431 |
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description | How is freedom valuable? And how should we go about defining freedom? In this essay, I discuss a distinction between two general ways of valuing freedom: one appeals to the good (e.g., to freedom's contribution to well‐being); the other appeals to how persons have reason to treat one another in virtue of their status as purposive beings (to the right). The analysis of these two values has many relevant implications and it is preliminary to a better understanding of the relationships between freedom and justice. First, it contributes to shed light on the relationship between trust and the value of freedom, and on two attitudes towards freedom – promoting and respecting freedom. Second, it disambiguates between two versions of the claim that freedom has non‐specific/content‐independent value: one appeals to the good, the other to the right. And third, I show that certain implications concerning the definition of freedom follow from assuming an account of the value of freedom that exclusively appeals to the right, illustrating how the value of freedom can shape what freedom is. |
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spelling | pubmed-100877742023-04-12 Freedom's values: The good and the right Intropi, Pietro Theoria Articles How is freedom valuable? And how should we go about defining freedom? In this essay, I discuss a distinction between two general ways of valuing freedom: one appeals to the good (e.g., to freedom's contribution to well‐being); the other appeals to how persons have reason to treat one another in virtue of their status as purposive beings (to the right). The analysis of these two values has many relevant implications and it is preliminary to a better understanding of the relationships between freedom and justice. First, it contributes to shed light on the relationship between trust and the value of freedom, and on two attitudes towards freedom – promoting and respecting freedom. Second, it disambiguates between two versions of the claim that freedom has non‐specific/content‐independent value: one appeals to the good, the other to the right. And third, I show that certain implications concerning the definition of freedom follow from assuming an account of the value of freedom that exclusively appeals to the right, illustrating how the value of freedom can shape what freedom is. John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2022-08-30 2022-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10087774/ /pubmed/37064415 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/theo.12431 Text en © 2022 The Author. Theoria published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Stiftelsen Theoria. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10087774/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37064415 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/theo.12431 |
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