In this short yet ambitious work, Philip Pettit offers a single, unified, and overarching theory of freedom. A puzzling topic, freedom extends from the individual and the metaphysical (i.e. free will) to the social and the political, yet a theory connecting these two realms has yet to be devised. In an elegant, accessible manner, Pettit presents a survey of available theories of freedom, then develops his own--one that manages to straddle the personal and political spheres. The view he develops--which includes the seemingly paradoxical notion that we are free to the extent that we are capable of being held responsible--will make this pioneering book highly important to a wide range of philosophers.
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We saw in the Introduction that the language of freedom applies on the side of agency - the principal focus in this book - and on the side of the environment where agency is exercised. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
common avowable interests, hostile coercion, social integrates, friendly coercion, conceptualizing freedom, existing volition, discursive control, bystander problem, integrated collectivities, integrated collectivity, discursive authorization, ratiocinative capacity, conceptualize freedom, discursive considerations, discursive dilemma, discursive partner, admissible considerations, indefinite regress, recursive problem, volitional control, control presupposes, modal problem, free selves, equating freedom, discursive influence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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common avowable interests, hostile coercion, social integrates, friendly coercion, conceptualizing freedom, existing volition, discursive control, bystander problem, integrated collectivities, integrated collectivity, discursive authorization, ratiocinative capacity, conceptualize freedom, discursive considerations, discursive dilemma, discursive partner, admissible considerations, indefinite regress, recursive problem, volitional control, control presupposes, modal problem, free selves, equating freedom, discursive influence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Free Will by Craig Watson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Free Will (Oxford Readings in Philosophy) by Gary Watson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill on page 167, and Back Matter
- Not Just Deserts: A Republican Theory of Criminal Justice (Clarendon Paperbacks) by John Braithwaite in Back Matter
- Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes by Quentin Skinner in Back Matter
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- Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett on page 309, and Back Matter
- Personal Autonomy in Society by Marina Oshana on page 130, and Back Matter
- Political Exclusion and Domination: NOMOS XLVI by Melissa Williams in Front Matter, and page 115
- Republicanism: History, Theory, Practice by Christian Nadeau on page 95, and Back Matter
- Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory (Contemporary Debates in Philosophy) by James Dreier in Front Matter, and page 95
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