Concept
Political freedom
Overview
concept in Western history and political thought
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Naturally, inevitably, the students of political science have been preoccupied with this great historic phenomenon, and their intellectual activities have been directed to its systematic formulation. Because the contemporary progressive movement was to establish the unified state against the inertia of minor social units and against the ambitions of rivals for power, political theory developed the dogma of the…
John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
Close in meaning to Political freedom; the term itself is not named.
Since established political forms were tied up with other institutions, especially ecclesiastical, and with a solid body of tradition and inherited belief, the revolt also extended to the latter. Thus it happened that the intellectual terms in which the movement expressed itself had a negative import even when they seemed to be positive. Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact…
John Dewey, The public and its problems
Close in meaning to Political freedom; the term itself is not named.
Since there was little in the apparent condition of the public mind, indicative of any tendency in this direction, my view of the immediate prospects of human improvement was not sanguine. More recently a spirit of free speculation has sprung up, giving a more encouraging prospect of the gradual mental emancipation of England; and concurring with the renewal under better auspices, of the movement for political…
John Stuart Mill, Autobiography
Names Political freedom.
Philosophers who discussed Political freedom
Related ideas
- History
- Friedrich Hayek
- Princeton University Press
- Human rights
- Isaiah Berlin
- Autonomy
- Milton Friedman
- Conformity
- Political philosophy
- Political spectrum
- State (polity)
- Vintage Books
- Charles Taylor (philosopher)
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Positive liberty
- Civil liberties
- Cornelius Castoriadis
- Value (ethics)
- Herbert Marcuse
- Negative liberty
- Michel Foucault
- Free will
- Penguin Books
- Antonio Gramsci
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Authoritarianism.