LEADER 03657nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910783168703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-75366-5 010 $a9786612753664 010 $a1-4008-2294-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400822942 035 $a(CKB)1000000000007947 035 $a(EBL)581592 035 $a(OCoLC)700688573 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000258750 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11222461 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000258750 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10274039 035 $a(PQKB)10035738 035 $a(DE-B1597)446192 035 $a(OCoLC)979910584 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400822942 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581592 035 $a(PPN)265134846 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581592 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10031902 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275366 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000007947 100 $a19980720d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA third concept of liberty$b[electronic resource] $ejudgment and freedom in Kant and Adam Smith /$fSamuel Fleischacker 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$d1999 215 $a1 online resource (351 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-00446-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [279]-327) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tPREFACE --$tABBREVIATIONS --$tINTRODUCTION --$tPART I: THE NATURE OF JUDGMENT --$tPART II: THE POLITICS OF JUDGMENT --$tPART III: THE FREEDOM OF JUDGMENT --$tNOTES --$tINDEX 330 $aTaking the title of his book from Isaiah Berlin's famous essay distinguishing a negative concept of liberty connoting lack of interference by others from a positive concept involving participation in the political realm, Samuel Fleischacker explores a third definition of liberty that lies between the first two. In Fleischacker's view, Kant and Adam Smith think of liberty as a matter of acting on our capacity for judgment, thereby differing both from those who tie it to the satisfaction of our desires and those who translate it as action in accordance with reason or "will." Integrating the thought of Kant and Smith, and developing his own stand through readings of the Critique of Judgment and The Wealth of Nations, Fleischacker shows how different acting on one's best judgment is from acting on one's desires--how, in particular, good judgment, as opposed to mere desire, can flourish only in favorable social and political conditions. At the same time, exercising judgment is something every individual must do for him- or herself, hence not something that philosophers and politicians who reason better than the rest of us can do in our stead. For this reason advocates of a liberty based on judgment are likely to be more concerned than are libertarians to make sure that government provides people with conditions for the use of their liberty--for example, excellent standards of education, health care, and unemployment insurance--while at the same time promoting a less paternalistic view of government than most of the movements associated for the past thirty years with the political left. 606 $aLiberty 606 $aJudgment (Ethics) 615 0$aLiberty. 615 0$aJudgment (Ethics) 676 $a323.44 700 $aFleischacker$b Samuel$0676320 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783168703321 996 $aA third concept of liberty$93720789 997 $aUNINA