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Thinking about Liberty
Quentin Skinner
其他書名
An Historian's Approach
出版Leo S. Olschki, 2016
主題Business & Economics / Business EthicsLaw / Business & FinancialPhilosophy / GeneralPhilosophy / PoliticalPolitical Science / GeneralPolitical Science / Public Policy / Economic PolicyPolitical Science / Political Freedom
ISBN88222646069788822264602
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mElPvgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In Thinking About Liberty: An Historian's Approach, the eminent historian Quentin Skinner traces a path in the history of ideas that involves different ways of thinking about liberty - a central concept in social and political thought in today's Western democracies - that are different from the usual liberal expectation. The definition of freedom as the absence of interference (by external agencies or by the self), though widespread, was by no means the only one prevailing. Skinner discusses two other distinct strands in the genealogy of modern liberty, besides that mentioned, namely freedom as an absence of dependence (as in the freeman or free man vs slave) and freedom as self-realisation. Skinner's concern is to call attention to these ways of thinking about freedom that are lately in danger of being forgotten. The lecture also presents Skinner's 2006 Balzan Prize research project, which involved young European scholars in addressing questions about the place of civil, religious and political liberty in the formation of modern Europe.