Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The Social Bases of Nazism, 1919–1933 is a 2003 non-fiction book written by Detlef Muehlberger. [1] [2] [3
Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics is a political science book from 1960 by Seymour Martin Lipset. [1] The book is an influential analysis of the bases of democracy across the world. One of the important sections is Chapter 2: "Economic Development and Democracy."
On Social Freedom: or the Necessary Limits of Individual Freedom Arising Out of the Conditions of Our Social Life is an essay regarding individual and societal freedom initially thought to have been written by the British philosopher John Stuart Mill, [1] but later found to have been falsely attributed to him. [2]
G.W.F Hegel wrote in his Elements of the Philosophy of Right (in the part in which he introduced the concept of the sphere of abstract right) that "duty is not a restriction on freedom, but only on freedom in the abstract" and that "duty is the attainment of our essence, the winning of positive freedom".
To avoid this, free men contract with each other to establish political community (civil society) through a social contract in which they all gain security in return for subjecting themselves to an absolute sovereign, one man or an assembly of men. Though the sovereign's edicts may well be arbitrary and tyrannical, Hobbes saw absolute ...
[9] Reviewing the UK edition of the book, Marina Vaizey praised it as a "quietly devastating takedown of capitalism," which offers "a highly readable, accessible – yet profound – examination of what kind of society might enable life at its most fulfilling," [10] while Critical Inquiry lauded the book as "a distinct and important ...
The freedom of thought and emotion. This includes the freedom to act on such thought, i.e. freedom of speech; The freedom to pursue tastes (provided they do no harm to others), even if they are deemed "immoral" The freedom to unite so long as the involved members are of age, the involved members are not forced, and no harm is done to others
MacCallum is well known for his critique to the distinction, made famous by Isaiah Berlin, between negative and positive liberty, proposing instead that the concept of freedom can only be understood as a 'triadic relation', in which "x is (is not) free from y to do (not do, become, not become) z". [2]