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The Private Side of American History: Readings in Everyday Life (1975) The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness and the Origins of the American Revolution (1979) Race, Class and Politics: Essays on American Colonial and Revolutionary Society (1986) Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720–1840 ...
Schopenhauer began by analyzing the basic concepts of freedom and self-consciousness. He asserted that there are three types of freedom; physical, intellectual, and moral (the terms were sometimes used in philosophy, as he shows in chapter four). Physical freedom is the absence of physical obstacles to actions. This negative approach can also ...
Berlin initially defined negative liberty as "freedom from", that is, the absence of constraints on the agent imposed by other people. He defined positive liberty both as "freedom to", that is, the ability (not just the opportunity) to pursue and achieve willed goals; and also as autonomy or self-rule, as opposed to dependence on others. [5]
The Life of the Mind was published posthumously. The Evangelical Basis has generated the most influence. [5] The Legal Mentality has been relatively neglected. [6] The sublime is present through the book. The introduction was “The Sublime of American.” [7] Unfortunately, that was not written, because Miller was deceased before the book ...
Freedom and Determinism. Ed. Richard Taylor (1966) [27] "Dare to be Wise". The Review of Metaphysics (1968) 615-629 [28] Good and Evil: A New Direction by Richard Taylor (1970) [29] Freedom, Anarchy, and the Law: An Introduction to Political Philosophy by Richard Taylor (1973) [30] On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason ...
"America is a great force for freedom and prosperity. Yet our greatness is not measured in power or luxuries, but by who we are and how we treat one another. So we strive to be a compassionate ...
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America is a 2017 book by James Forman Jr. on support for the 1970s War on Crime from Black leaders in American cities. It won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction [ 1 ] and the Lillian Smith Book Award .
American individualist Benjamin R. Tucker, editor of the Journal Liberty, adopted Stirner's egoism in 1886 while rejecting conceptions of natural rights. This led to a bitter split in American individualist anarchism between egoists such as James L. Walker and John Beverly Robinson and the proponents of natural rights anarchism such as that of ...