This document provides a summary of a paper on political theories of freedom and choice. It discusses competing accounts of freedom from thinkers in the Western tradition like Kant, Burke, and critical theorists from the Frankfurt School. It examines Kant's views on freedom of the will and democratic peace. It also looks at Edmund Burke's support for limited constitutional freedoms. The document concludes by briefly discussing Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt's contributions to understanding the impact of technology and action on freedom.
This document discusses the relationship between human rights and the theory of liberalism. It provides a liberal critique of how modern human rights have derived from earlier liberal views on individual dignity and freedom. The document argues that while human rights aim to protect individuals, modern approaches view rights holders as needing protection rather than as autonomous individuals seeking their own freedoms. It also discusses how nationalism has affected liberal ideas of human rights. In conclusion, the document states that while the goal of human rights is just, the modern ideology and justification of rights is problematic and fails to adequately explain why well-intentioned people should respect human rights.
This document discusses Jordan Peterson and how he has become a figurehead for the alt-right movement due to his controversial views. It argues that Peterson and others claim to defend free speech, but that true free speech has never existed due to various legal and social prohibitions throughout history. It also critiques liberals and conservatives who believe controversial figures like Peterson should have an open platform, arguing this can help spread misinformation and bigotry. The document concludes that Peterson openly expresses misogyny and criticism of feminism.
The document discusses the Enlightenment era and several Enlightenment thinkers. It notes that the Enlightenment stressed reason and the power of individuals to solve problems. It discusses how Enlightenment thinkers like Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Baron de Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau approached their goals differently due to their backgrounds and environments. While some of their ideas are not used today, they were instrumental in shaping modern society. Baron de Montesquieu in particular helped shape the United States. The document also notes how Enlightenment thinkers challenged authority by speaking their minds and instigating change, despite facing persecution for their views.
Week 6, Reading Section 6.1 IntroductionIntroductionAs you wi.docxcockekeshia
Week 6, Reading Section 6.1: Introduction
Introduction
As you will recall, from Week 3, the Plagues of the Fourteenth Century had disastrous effects on Europe. Many of today’s developments can be traced as having their root, causative factors in that Century. There were two others: the Protestant Reformation of the Sixteenth Century and successive Religious Wars, culminating in the Thirty Years War, 1618-48 and the English Civil War, 1642-48. In the wake of these events, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, respectively, Philosophers began to question all the presuppositions of Life.
You are about to encounter another such development, which grew from this questioning: Social Contract Theory.
Resource: Social Contract Theory [PDF]
Up to the times of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, few, if anyone, in Europe, questioned the origins of Society and the State. The prevailing theory was Aristotle’s, as it had been imported into Western Christianity, by Thomas Aquinas. This theory said that human beings were “Social Animals.” The underlying interpretation of that position is that human society is a given of human existence and has always been that way.
Week 6, Reading Section 6.2: Thomas Hobbes and John Locke
II. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke
The questions that Social Contract theorists, starting with Thomas Hobbes and continuing with John Locke, asked were: What were the origins of Society? What makes a “good” form of society? How does the State (meaning “government”) come into being?
Both Hobbes and Locke started from what they called the “State of Nature,” a wilderness, where all “men” (Hobbes speaks only of “men”; one wonders from whence he believed “men” came, without mention of women;) begin, having absolute rights and equality. Put another way, if one “man” encountered another, and a conflict arose about a resource, like food, came about, the right to kill would, regrettably, still be available to both. Fortunately, it occurred to our species that that was a lousy way to run a planet. Thus, the idea of “forming society” by “social contracts” occurred to someone. That was the moment that human beings left “the State of Nature,” and founded Society (a/k/a “Civil Society”).
A. Hobbes
Resource: End-of-Life Decisions [PDF]
Hobbes, being a friend and confidant of the Stuart Family, was a monarchist, and presupposed the existence of a “Sovereign.” In The Leviathan, Hobbes suggested that, in forming the Civil Society, people had to surrender their rights, in exchange for two things: (1) protection from each other, and (2) protection from outside threats. The question was: to what or whom did they have to surrender those rights? Hobbes’ answer was “the Sovereign,” a/k/a “the Leviathan,” an allusion to a mythical sea creature. What Hobbes meant was that “the Sovereign,” was the English Monarchy. The Stuart Family at the time, sat on the unified Throne of England, Wales, and Scotland at the time.
Resource: Thomas Hobbes: Moral and Political .
This document provides a summary of a paper titled "Human rights Between theory and Practice" presented by Abdelhamied El-Rafie. The paper discusses the theoretical background of human rights, the international organizational system for human rights, and whether human rights are politicized in practice. It begins with an introduction outlining the questions and hypothesis. Part 1 then discusses the historical and theoretical background of human rights in depth, tracing the philosophical origins and debates around natural rights from thinkers like Aquinas, Grotius, Hobbes, Kant, Locke, Rousseau, Marx and others. It examines the differing views around whether rights are inherent to human nature or created by societies, and questions whether human rights are truly
Human rights have their origins in philosophical debates over moral standards of political organization that are independent of contemporary societies. The paper discusses the historical development of theories of natural rights from Greek philosophers to modern theorists. It traces the shift from divine justifications of natural rights to secular, humanist rationales and the ongoing debates over whether rights are created by societies or exist independently. The paper aims to analyze the theoretical background of human rights and examine whether they are politicized in practice given the international human rights system and geopolitical balances of power.
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The document discusses the emergence and development of sociology. It traces the roots of sociological understanding back to ancient Greek and Roman literature. However, sociology emerged as a systematic study of society in the West. Significant figures in the development of sociology include Saint-Simon, Comte, and Durkheim. Saint-Simon advocated studying society scientifically like the natural sciences. Comte coined the term "sociology" and emphasized discovering social laws through observation and experimentation. He believed sociology would be the most complex science. The industrial revolution and changes in society led these early theorists to examine social problems and establish sociology as a means to study and reform society.
This document discusses the relationship between human rights and the theory of liberalism. It provides a liberal critique of how modern human rights have derived from earlier liberal views on individual dignity and freedom. The document argues that while human rights aim to protect individuals, modern approaches view rights holders as needing protection rather than as autonomous individuals seeking their own freedoms. It also discusses how nationalism has affected liberal ideas of human rights. In conclusion, the document states that while the goal of human rights is just, the modern ideology and justification of rights is problematic and fails to adequately explain why well-intentioned people should respect human rights.
This document discusses Jordan Peterson and how he has become a figurehead for the alt-right movement due to his controversial views. It argues that Peterson and others claim to defend free speech, but that true free speech has never existed due to various legal and social prohibitions throughout history. It also critiques liberals and conservatives who believe controversial figures like Peterson should have an open platform, arguing this can help spread misinformation and bigotry. The document concludes that Peterson openly expresses misogyny and criticism of feminism.
The document discusses the Enlightenment era and several Enlightenment thinkers. It notes that the Enlightenment stressed reason and the power of individuals to solve problems. It discusses how Enlightenment thinkers like Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Baron de Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau approached their goals differently due to their backgrounds and environments. While some of their ideas are not used today, they were instrumental in shaping modern society. Baron de Montesquieu in particular helped shape the United States. The document also notes how Enlightenment thinkers challenged authority by speaking their minds and instigating change, despite facing persecution for their views.
Week 6, Reading Section 6.1 IntroductionIntroductionAs you wi.docxcockekeshia
Week 6, Reading Section 6.1: Introduction
Introduction
As you will recall, from Week 3, the Plagues of the Fourteenth Century had disastrous effects on Europe. Many of today’s developments can be traced as having their root, causative factors in that Century. There were two others: the Protestant Reformation of the Sixteenth Century and successive Religious Wars, culminating in the Thirty Years War, 1618-48 and the English Civil War, 1642-48. In the wake of these events, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, respectively, Philosophers began to question all the presuppositions of Life.
You are about to encounter another such development, which grew from this questioning: Social Contract Theory.
Resource: Social Contract Theory [PDF]
Up to the times of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, few, if anyone, in Europe, questioned the origins of Society and the State. The prevailing theory was Aristotle’s, as it had been imported into Western Christianity, by Thomas Aquinas. This theory said that human beings were “Social Animals.” The underlying interpretation of that position is that human society is a given of human existence and has always been that way.
Week 6, Reading Section 6.2: Thomas Hobbes and John Locke
II. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke
The questions that Social Contract theorists, starting with Thomas Hobbes and continuing with John Locke, asked were: What were the origins of Society? What makes a “good” form of society? How does the State (meaning “government”) come into being?
Both Hobbes and Locke started from what they called the “State of Nature,” a wilderness, where all “men” (Hobbes speaks only of “men”; one wonders from whence he believed “men” came, without mention of women;) begin, having absolute rights and equality. Put another way, if one “man” encountered another, and a conflict arose about a resource, like food, came about, the right to kill would, regrettably, still be available to both. Fortunately, it occurred to our species that that was a lousy way to run a planet. Thus, the idea of “forming society” by “social contracts” occurred to someone. That was the moment that human beings left “the State of Nature,” and founded Society (a/k/a “Civil Society”).
A. Hobbes
Resource: End-of-Life Decisions [PDF]
Hobbes, being a friend and confidant of the Stuart Family, was a monarchist, and presupposed the existence of a “Sovereign.” In The Leviathan, Hobbes suggested that, in forming the Civil Society, people had to surrender their rights, in exchange for two things: (1) protection from each other, and (2) protection from outside threats. The question was: to what or whom did they have to surrender those rights? Hobbes’ answer was “the Sovereign,” a/k/a “the Leviathan,” an allusion to a mythical sea creature. What Hobbes meant was that “the Sovereign,” was the English Monarchy. The Stuart Family at the time, sat on the unified Throne of England, Wales, and Scotland at the time.
Resource: Thomas Hobbes: Moral and Political .
This document provides a summary of a paper titled "Human rights Between theory and Practice" presented by Abdelhamied El-Rafie. The paper discusses the theoretical background of human rights, the international organizational system for human rights, and whether human rights are politicized in practice. It begins with an introduction outlining the questions and hypothesis. Part 1 then discusses the historical and theoretical background of human rights in depth, tracing the philosophical origins and debates around natural rights from thinkers like Aquinas, Grotius, Hobbes, Kant, Locke, Rousseau, Marx and others. It examines the differing views around whether rights are inherent to human nature or created by societies, and questions whether human rights are truly
Human rights have their origins in philosophical debates over moral standards of political organization that are independent of contemporary societies. The paper discusses the historical development of theories of natural rights from Greek philosophers to modern theorists. It traces the shift from divine justifications of natural rights to secular, humanist rationales and the ongoing debates over whether rights are created by societies or exist independently. The paper aims to analyze the theoretical background of human rights and examine whether they are politicized in practice given the international human rights system and geopolitical balances of power.
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The document discusses the emergence and development of sociology. It traces the roots of sociological understanding back to ancient Greek and Roman literature. However, sociology emerged as a systematic study of society in the West. Significant figures in the development of sociology include Saint-Simon, Comte, and Durkheim. Saint-Simon advocated studying society scientifically like the natural sciences. Comte coined the term "sociology" and emphasized discovering social laws through observation and experimentation. He believed sociology would be the most complex science. The industrial revolution and changes in society led these early theorists to examine social problems and establish sociology as a means to study and reform society.
Integrating Advocacy and Legal Tactics to Tackle Online Consumer Complaintsseoglobal20
Our company bridges the gap between registered users and experienced advocates, offering a user-friendly online platform for seamless interaction. This platform empowers users to voice their grievances, particularly regarding online consumer issues. We streamline support by utilizing our team of expert advocates to provide consultancy services and initiate appropriate legal actions.
Our Online Consumer Legal Forum offers comprehensive guidance to individuals and businesses facing consumer complaints. With a dedicated team, round-the-clock support, and efficient complaint management, we are the preferred solution for addressing consumer grievances.
Our intuitive online interface allows individuals to register complaints, seek legal advice, and pursue justice conveniently. Users can submit complaints via mobile devices and send legal notices to companies directly through our portal.
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Business law for the students of undergraduate level. The presentation contains the summary of all the chapters under the syllabus of State University, Contract Act, Sale of Goods Act, Negotiable Instrument Act, Partnership Act, Limited Liability Act, Consumer Protection Act.
Genocide in International Criminal Law.pptxMasoudZamani13
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
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Sangyun Lee, 'Why Korea's Merger Control Occasionally Fails: A Public Choice ...Sangyun Lee
Presentation slides for a session held on June 4, 2024, at Kyoto University. This presentation is based on the presenter’s recent paper, coauthored with Hwang Lee, Professor, Korea University, with the same title, published in the Journal of Business Administration & Law, Volume 34, No. 2 (April 2024). The paper, written in Korean, is available at <https://shorturl.at/GCWcI>.
सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने यह भी माना था कि मजिस्ट्रेट का यह कर्तव्य है कि वह सुनिश्चित करे कि अधिकारी पीएमएलए के तहत निर्धारित प्रक्रिया के साथ-साथ संवैधानिक सुरक्षा उपायों का भी उचित रूप से पालन करें।
Lifting the Corporate Veil. Power Point Presentationseri bangash
"Lifting the Corporate Veil" is a legal concept that refers to the judicial act of disregarding the separate legal personality of a corporation or limited liability company (LLC). Normally, a corporation is considered a legal entity separate from its shareholders or members, meaning that the personal assets of shareholders or members are protected from the liabilities of the corporation. However, there are certain situations where courts may decide to "pierce" or "lift" the corporate veil, holding shareholders or members personally liable for the debts or actions of the corporation.
Here are some common scenarios in which courts might lift the corporate veil:
Fraud or Illegality: If shareholders or members use the corporate structure to perpetrate fraud, evade legal obligations, or engage in illegal activities, courts may disregard the corporate entity and hold those individuals personally liable.
Undercapitalization: If a corporation is formed with insufficient capital to conduct its intended business and meet its foreseeable liabilities, and this lack of capitalization results in harm to creditors or other parties, courts may lift the corporate veil to hold shareholders or members liable.
Failure to Observe Corporate Formalities: Corporations and LLCs are required to observe certain formalities, such as holding regular meetings, maintaining separate financial records, and avoiding commingling of personal and corporate assets. If these formalities are not observed and the corporate structure is used as a mere façade, courts may disregard the corporate entity.
Alter Ego: If there is such a unity of interest and ownership between the corporation and its shareholders or members that the separate personalities of the corporation and the individuals no longer exist, courts may treat the corporation as the alter ego of its owners and hold them personally liable.
Group Enterprises: In some cases, where multiple corporations are closely related or form part of a single economic unit, courts may pierce the corporate veil to achieve equity, particularly if one corporation's actions harm creditors or other stakeholders and the corporate structure is being used to shield culpable parties from liability.
What are the common challenges faced by women lawyers working in the legal pr...lawyersonia
The legal profession, which has historically been male-dominated, has experienced a significant increase in the number of women entering the field over the past few decades. Despite this progress, women lawyers continue to encounter various challenges as they strive for top positions.
2024 State of Marketing Report – by HubspotMarius Sescu
https://www.hubspot.com/state-of-marketing
· Scaling relationships and proving ROI
· Social media is the place for search, sales, and service
· Authentic influencer partnerships fuel brand growth
· The strongest connections happen via call, click, chat, and camera.
· Time saved with AI leads to more creative work
· Seeking: A single source of truth
· TLDR; Get on social, try AI, and align your systems.
· More human marketing, powered by robots
ChatGPT is a revolutionary addition to the world since its introduction in 2022. A big shift in the sector of information gathering and processing happened because of this chatbot. What is the story of ChatGPT? How is the bot responding to prompts and generating contents? Swipe through these slides prepared by Expeed Software, a web development company regarding the development and technical intricacies of ChatGPT!
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Our Online Consumer Legal Forum offers comprehensive guidance to individuals and businesses facing consumer complaints. With a dedicated team, round-the-clock support, and efficient complaint management, we are the preferred solution for addressing consumer grievances.
Our intuitive online interface allows individuals to register complaints, seek legal advice, and pursue justice conveniently. Users can submit complaints via mobile devices and send legal notices to companies directly through our portal.
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Sangyun Lee, 'Why Korea's Merger Control Occasionally Fails: A Public Choice ...Sangyun Lee
Presentation slides for a session held on June 4, 2024, at Kyoto University. This presentation is based on the presenter’s recent paper, coauthored with Hwang Lee, Professor, Korea University, with the same title, published in the Journal of Business Administration & Law, Volume 34, No. 2 (April 2024). The paper, written in Korean, is available at <https://shorturl.at/GCWcI>.
सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने यह भी माना था कि मजिस्ट्रेट का यह कर्तव्य है कि वह सुनिश्चित करे कि अधिकारी पीएमएलए के तहत निर्धारित प्रक्रिया के साथ-साथ संवैधानिक सुरक्षा उपायों का भी उचित रूप से पालन करें।
Lifting the Corporate Veil. Power Point Presentationseri bangash
"Lifting the Corporate Veil" is a legal concept that refers to the judicial act of disregarding the separate legal personality of a corporation or limited liability company (LLC). Normally, a corporation is considered a legal entity separate from its shareholders or members, meaning that the personal assets of shareholders or members are protected from the liabilities of the corporation. However, there are certain situations where courts may decide to "pierce" or "lift" the corporate veil, holding shareholders or members personally liable for the debts or actions of the corporation.
Here are some common scenarios in which courts might lift the corporate veil:
Fraud or Illegality: If shareholders or members use the corporate structure to perpetrate fraud, evade legal obligations, or engage in illegal activities, courts may disregard the corporate entity and hold those individuals personally liable.
Undercapitalization: If a corporation is formed with insufficient capital to conduct its intended business and meet its foreseeable liabilities, and this lack of capitalization results in harm to creditors or other parties, courts may lift the corporate veil to hold shareholders or members liable.
Failure to Observe Corporate Formalities: Corporations and LLCs are required to observe certain formalities, such as holding regular meetings, maintaining separate financial records, and avoiding commingling of personal and corporate assets. If these formalities are not observed and the corporate structure is used as a mere façade, courts may disregard the corporate entity.
Alter Ego: If there is such a unity of interest and ownership between the corporation and its shareholders or members that the separate personalities of the corporation and the individuals no longer exist, courts may treat the corporation as the alter ego of its owners and hold them personally liable.
Group Enterprises: In some cases, where multiple corporations are closely related or form part of a single economic unit, courts may pierce the corporate veil to achieve equity, particularly if one corporation's actions harm creditors or other stakeholders and the corporate structure is being used to shield culpable parties from liability.
What are the common challenges faced by women lawyers working in the legal pr...lawyersonia
The legal profession, which has historically been male-dominated, has experienced a significant increase in the number of women entering the field over the past few decades. Despite this progress, women lawyers continue to encounter various challenges as they strive for top positions.
2024 State of Marketing Report – by HubspotMarius Sescu
https://www.hubspot.com/state-of-marketing
· Scaling relationships and proving ROI
· Social media is the place for search, sales, and service
· Authentic influencer partnerships fuel brand growth
· The strongest connections happen via call, click, chat, and camera.
· Time saved with AI leads to more creative work
· Seeking: A single source of truth
· TLDR; Get on social, try AI, and align your systems.
· More human marketing, powered by robots
ChatGPT is a revolutionary addition to the world since its introduction in 2022. A big shift in the sector of information gathering and processing happened because of this chatbot. What is the story of ChatGPT? How is the bot responding to prompts and generating contents? Swipe through these slides prepared by Expeed Software, a web development company regarding the development and technical intricacies of ChatGPT!
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How Race, Age and Gender Shape Attitudes Towards Mental HealthThinkNow
Mental health has been in the news quite a bit lately. Dozens of U.S. states are currently suing Meta for contributing to the youth mental health crisis by inserting addictive features into their products, while the U.S. Surgeon General is touring the nation to bring awareness to the growing epidemic of loneliness and isolation. The country has endured periods of low national morale, such as in the 1970s when high inflation and the energy crisis worsened public sentiment following the Vietnam War. The current mood, however, feels different. Gallup recently reported that national mental health is at an all-time low, with few bright spots to lift spirits.
To better understand how Americans are feeling and their attitudes towards mental health in general, ThinkNow conducted a nationally representative quantitative survey of 1,500 respondents and found some interesting differences among ethnic, age and gender groups.
Technology
For example, 52% agree that technology and social media have a negative impact on mental health, but when broken out by race, 61% of Whites felt technology had a negative effect, and only 48% of Hispanics thought it did.
While technology has helped us keep in touch with friends and family in faraway places, it appears to have degraded our ability to connect in person. Staying connected online is a double-edged sword since the same news feed that brings us pictures of the grandkids and fluffy kittens also feeds us news about the wars in Israel and Ukraine, the dysfunction in Washington, the latest mass shooting and the climate crisis.
Hispanics may have a built-in defense against the isolation technology breeds, owing to their large, multigenerational households, strong social support systems, and tendency to use social media to stay connected with relatives abroad.
Age and Gender
When asked how individuals rate their mental health, men rate it higher than women by 11 percentage points, and Baby Boomers rank it highest at 83%, saying it’s good or excellent vs. 57% of Gen Z saying the same.
Gen Z spends the most amount of time on social media, so the notion that social media negatively affects mental health appears to be correlated. Unfortunately, Gen Z is also the generation that’s least comfortable discussing mental health concerns with healthcare professionals. Only 40% of them state they’re comfortable discussing their issues with a professional compared to 60% of Millennials and 65% of Boomers.
Race Affects Attitudes
As seen in previous research conducted by ThinkNow, Asian Americans lag other groups when it comes to awareness of mental health issues. Twenty-four percent of Asian Americans believe that having a mental health issue is a sign of weakness compared to the 16% average for all groups. Asians are also considerably less likely to be aware of mental health services in their communities (42% vs. 55%) and most likely to seek out information on social media (51% vs. 35%).
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Organizational culture includes values, norms, systems, symbols, language, assumptions, beliefs, and habits that influence employee behaviors and how people interpret those behaviors. It is important because culture can help or hinder a company's success. Some key aspects of Netflix's culture that help it achieve results include hiring smartly so every position has stars, focusing on attitude over just aptitude, and having a strict policy against peacocks, whiners, and jerks.
PEPSICO Presentation to CAGNY Conference Feb 2024Neil Kimberley
PepsiCo provided a safe harbor statement noting that any forward-looking statements are based on currently available information and are subject to risks and uncertainties. It also provided information on non-GAAP measures and directing readers to its website for disclosure and reconciliation. The document then discussed PepsiCo's business overview, including that it is a global beverage and convenient food company with iconic brands, $91 billion in net revenue in 2023, and nearly $14 billion in core operating profit. It operates through a divisional structure with a focus on local consumers.
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How to Prepare For a Successful Job Search for 2024Albert Qian
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Political Theory and Freedom of Choices
1. BOHR International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
2022, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 60–65
https://doi.org/10.54646/bijsshr.010
www.bohrpub.com
Political Theory and Freedom of Choices
Antonio L. Rappa
Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore
E-mail: rappa@suss.edu.sg
Abstract. Can there be genuine freedom of choice? This paper takes into account competing versions of freedoms
and liberties from the Western tradition. There are competing accounts because of the variegated approaches to
understanding freedom. There are also various advantages and disadvantages to these varieties of conceptual
freedom. If it were possible to place these on a linear scale, there are choices that lie on the right-wing and, at
the other extreme, on the left-wing. These propagandist notions of freedom pose serious consequences for the actual
choices offered as well as the choices that are eventually made. The paper examines the key arguments made by the
most important philosophers of democracy and freedom in modernity. The paper questions whether anyone ought
to bother about freedom in the first place. The paper concludes with the major articulations of freedom from both
normative and positive political theory.
Keywords: Freedom and liberty, democracy, the Western tradition of political philosophy, Immanuel Kant, the
Enlightenment, John Rawls, authentic choice, inauthentic choice.
INTRODUCTION
In the Western tradition,1 the problem of the “freedom of
choice” has been treated in various conceptual arguments
since at least the time of Aristotle. The Western tradition
involves classical Greek philosophers, such as Socrates,
Plato, Aristotle, Euripides, and the ancient Roman poets,
including Ovid and the other Olympian mythologists [27,
131]. In the Greek censorship, myth of Callisto is differenti-
ated from Ovid’s, where voice is power, and since Callisto
loses her voice, she hence loses her power. Diana exiles
Callisto to preserve her own sexuality, and Juno transforms
Callisto into a bear to secure her as Jupiter’s wife. But
Jupiter thinks nothing of Callisto and merely uses her to
release his lustful urges. Ovid’s own experiences resonate
within the story of Philomela, who, having refused to be
silenced even when her tongue was spliced, began writing
instead.
This is why it is primarily through writing that ancient
and modern philosophers of freedom express their choices.
Concepts of the freedom of choice in modernity begin at
the point of individual birth. One can only select choices
1 Naturally, scholars such as Critchley and others have criticized the
notion of a Western philosophical tradition by raising the question of a
Black Socrates [7, 79–98].
from a restricted or imposed set of options as a child, an
adult, or as a dying person. All these choices are limited
by a wide range of variables. After a long bibliographic
review of the literature on liberty, freedom, and choice, the
paper argues that the problem of freedom begins at the
time of birth. Is it our genuine choice to be born? Do we
have a real choice to continue making choices? The choices
that we have before us in life are not always real. Neither
are they always genuine. They may not be real because
we do not know the extent or meaning of the available
options, nor do we know if better options will emerge
later. The choices that we have before us also might not
be genuine or authentic. And as a result of the lack of any
forthcoming authenticity, the choices we make might result
in unintended consequences. This is to say nothing about
the impact of politics, religion, propaganda, subjectivity,
science, or social expectations on (in)authentic choices that
have received different theoretical treatments since the
time of Hegel and Kant to Heidegger and Sartre [9, 12, 21,
32, 34]. Why should anyone bother with freedom in the first
place? It would seem that the weaponization of freedom
and liberty is the desire and outcome of ancient, medieval,
and modern warmongers. Nevertheless, this paper focuses
on the importance, or perhaps lack of, freedoms and liber-
ties in our lives. Political scientists in general and political
theorists in particular must strive to take into account
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2. Political Theory and Freedom of Choices 61
the historical evolution of Western theories of freedom
while not remaining shackled by the same theories. For us
theorists, freedom is always on our minds, or at least on
the backburner.
As important as this may be, freedom and liberty are not
always at the forefront of every individual’s minds.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Although we begin our review of the literature on freedom
and choice with Edmund Burke, we could have alterna-
tively begun with the works of Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas
Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes, or Jean-Jacques Rosseau. Politi-
cal theory does not have to be a series of arguments made
from a sequence of chronologies often associated with the
simplistic format used by historians.
Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France
(1790) was against the irrationality of the French Rev-
olution as well as the guillotining of Marie Antoinette.
He saw the French revolutionaries as extremely unreason-
able. But Burke sought to limit the political power of the
English monarchy but defended the throne of Louis XVI
as he denounced the French revolution [14, 417]. He was
devoted to the spirit of what he referred to as “rational
liberty,” a freedom that was designed to regulate itself.
Burke loved freedom but fought to limit the political power
of the State and Church. But he also believed in liberal
constitutionalism—freedoms regulated and restricted by
law. Burke supported “a manly, moral, regulated liberty.”
He recognized the power of “self-interest” but emphasized
the importance of “self-restraint.” Overall, Burke was a
relatively strange liberal thinker. He embraced the Glo-
rious Revolution (1688) and approved of the American
Revolution (1776) and the Polish Reform (1791), yet he
opposed the French Revolution (1790). Therefore, we can
only conclude that Burke had both radical and revolution-
ary streaks [2, 11, 18, 22].
KANTIAN FREEDOM
Unlike the well-travelled Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant
was quite a homebody. As one of the most important
German Enlightenment era philosophers, Immanuel Kant
was born in Konigsberg in 1724 and spent most of his life
in Eastern Prussia. This is an odd situation for someone
who devoted his life to continental Western philosophy. Yet
he remains one of the giants of modern Western philos-
ophy, nevertheless. Kant had different views of freedom,
not just one. According to Kant, “freedom is the freedom
to act on subjectively contingent choices that reflect the
divergent purposes of concrete individuals” [4, 560] or
“Willkür” which refers to a one-sided arbitrary decision
(moral or otherwise) that is in fact similar to Hegel’s
conception of de Willkür. For Kant, the autonomy of the
will was the supreme basis of morality; the autonomy of
the will was a necessary though not sufficient condition
for moral agency. Indeed, for Kant, “the property of the
will by which it is a law to itself independently of any
property of the objects of volition” [8, 263]. This precept
influenced Kant’s belief in the democratic peace theory that
he proposed.
Kantian scholars tend to agree that Kant’s democratic
peace proposition is a situation where democratic states
are more amenable and cooperative with other democratic
states than with nondemocratic ones. Democratic states
behave differently when they deal with nondemocratic
states. Some scholars have gone to the extent of arguing
that the democratic peace proposition is nothing but a
myth. Bruce Russet went to the other extreme, where he
claimed that the world possesses a critical core of demo-
cratic states. However, the majority of Kantian scholars
tend to agree with Kant’s notion of cooperative behav-
ior among democratic states. In other words, democratic
states tend not to go to war with other democratic states.
However, some scholars—while not outrightly rejecting
Kant’s peace theory—argue that the inherent weaknesses
in democratic peace theory make it less useful than realism,
which is superior to democratic peace theory as a predictor
of international outcomes [20, 7].
But Kant’s work is not just about democratic peace, and
he does not claim to build a comprehensive theory of
peacefulness. The utilitarians, who believe in redistributive
theories of justice, treat the punishment of criminals as
the means of achieving the happiness of the majority of
citizens over the minority of citizens. Making more people
happy is always the clarion call (albeit simplistic) of the
utilitarians—such as James Mill, Jeremy Bentham, and
John Stuart Mill. The utilitarians and their supporters in
the 20th century say that Kant is in fact a supporter of
redistributive justice when it comes to the punishment of
criminals. This means that if the majority of people prefer
the death penalty by execution, it will be implemented. If
there is a majority of one that prefers the death penalty
to be execution after torture or execution by being shot
to death with a gatling gun, then so it will be. And if the
majority’s happiness is achieved by banning all forms of
capital punishment, then that is what will happen. For the
redistributivists, the punishment must fit the crime.
While utilitarians draw from Kantian redistributivism
or redistributive justice, other scholars draw from what is
known as retributive justice [17, 319]. The latter is asso-
ciated with the work of St. Thomas Aquinas’ ideas on
punishment, which must always contain a moral deter-
mination as well as a dereliction of the will. These two
terms are inadequately covered by Koritansky. Therefore,
under Catholic dogma, punishment must fit the willfully
committed moral crime of sin. Spiritual or otherwise, the
notion of Kant’s redistributivism, on the one hand, and
Aquinas’ moral punishment for the good, on the other
hand, are two interesting streams of justice that cannot be
simply ignored.
3. 62 Antonio L. Rappa
Kant’s three critiques are often seen to be his greatest
contributions to Western political philosophy, especially in
ethical philosophy. These are the Critique of Pure Reason
(1781, 1787), the Critique of Practical Reason (1788), and the
Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790).
Kant wrote the Critique of toward the end of the Enlight-
enment era, which was already in a state of crisis as the
philosophical paradigm began shifting toward Romanti-
cism. On hindsight, we know that the Enlightenment was
Western philosophy’s response to 16th and 17th century
modern science (Copernicus, Galileo, Newton) and the
increasing faith in human reason that led to the criticism of
the traditional authority of the State and the Church. “Why
should we need political or religious authorities to tell us
how to live or what to believe, if each of us has the capacity
to figure these things out for ourselves?” asked Kant.
For Kant, freedom is derived from empirical observa-
tions and thus from some kind of agent or agencies [26,
537–549]. But this course of treatment of Kantian freedom
appears to be more about making a mountain out of a
molehill. Apart from the democratic peace theory, Kant
was similarly famous for his notion of the categorical
imperative. For example, if a murderer is looking for your
friend who is hiding in your house and demands to know
where your friend is, you have to tell him the truth, even
if it might mean that your friend might be murdered.
While you do not have the mens rea or the intention to kill
your friend, telling the murderer where you friend is and
knowing that she or he might be murdered makes you an
accessory to the murder of your friend. Thus, Kant said,
one must tell the truth to the point of death. This means
that even if you are accused of being an accessory to a
crime, and proven guilty of it, you must still tell the truth
on pain of criminal punishment.
CRITICAL THEORY
The Frankfurt School grew out of the Institute of Social
Research and led to the establishment of critical theory,
which compiled the works of several modern German
philosophers. The beginnings of this school are seen to be
around the time when the Weimer Republic was already
in a political mess. The critical theorists are marked by
their joint efforts that approach neo-Marxism from various
angles. Critical theory is unique not because of its name
or label but because it generally views the role of political
theory as part of a larger focus. The focus of critical theory
has usually revolved around the need to free humanity
from capitalist slavery, as posited by the first generation of
scholars.
Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), Theodor Adorno (1903–
1969), Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), Walter Benjamin
(1892–1940), Friedrich Pollock (1894–1970), Leo Lowenthal
(1900–1993), and Eric Fromm (1900–1980) are considered
members of the first generation of critical theorists. The
second generation was made up of Jürgen Habermas and
the less well-known Richard Bernstein.
The third generation is believed to have included the
former students of Habermas, including his main assistant,
Albrecht Wellmer, and others from the United States and
Germany, including but not limited to Andrew Feenberg,
Klaus Offe, Josef Früchtl, Hauke Brunkhorst, Klaus Gün-
ther, Axel Honneth, Alessandro Ferrara, Cristina Lafont,
and Rainer Forst. However, the Frankfurt School has been
scrutinized by various scholars, including Chantal Mouffe
and Douglas Kellner, Martin Jay, Zoltan Tar, and Tom
Bottomore. Mouffe argued that discursive action was a
large part of reaching consensus, leaving little political
space once cooperation was achieved; this was her basis
for indirectly criticizing the work of several first-generation
critical theorists whose simplistic conceptual basis for
social inquiry was to increase the possibility of liberty
by any means possible. Theodore Adorno’s criticism of
genuineness was a focus of Martin Jay’s critique of “taking
on the stigma of inauthenticity” [16, 15]. Jay went on to cite
Heidegger’s Being and Time as Theodore Adorno’s target
in his critique of authenticity. Bottomore’s brilliant study
took a controversial view of the Frankfurt School and its
general neglect of history (a case that was similarly raised
by Michel Foucault at different fora) while attempting to
establish links with 1960s positivism and structuralism.
Unlike many political philosophers, the Frankfurt School
remains alive and healthy but is not considered very influ-
ential any longer.
HEIDEGGER AND ARENDT
Perhaps two theorists who lived around the time of the
Frankfurters and are sometimes associated with the Frank-
furters were Martin Heidegger and his student Hannah
Arendt. While Karl Jaspers at first supervised Arendt, it
was Heidegger who eventually made her his life’s project.
Heidegger was said to have taught Arendt everything she
knew about technology and its evils. Heidegger recog-
nizes two classes of “Being” or Zuhandensein (deliberative
interpretation by appropriation of that which is ready-to-
use) and Vorhandensein (discursive appropriation of the
present-at-hand). Both classes are linked by the concept of
“-handensein” [6, 387–408].
Arendt went on to attain worldwide acclaim with her
brand of modern philosophy. She did not let her experi-
ences of the past affect her own personal thinking. Arendt
was attempting to write a comprehensive thesis about the
psychology of the mind and the ways in which human
beings act and react. But she died long before it could even
see fruition. One of her major weaknesses was her inability
to groom successors among her many students (a stark
comparison with writers such as Habermas, for example).
Unlike many other political theorists, such as Dorothy
H. B. Kwek and Antonio L. Rappa; and Jane Bennett and
4. Political Theory and Freedom of Choices 63
William Connolly, Arendt and Heidegger’s personal lives
drew significantly more attention than their theoretical
work and political interests.
Arendt’s relationship to Heidegger was marred by the
Hollywoodization of their 4-year long love affair, the one
between a man who desired to become the state philoso-
pher during Nazi Germany and the other being one of
the most brilliant political theorists of late modernity who
happened to be a beautiful Jewish woman as well. Refer-
ring to Arendt, Julia Kristeva wrote about the former’s
psychic bisexuality. Kristeva was merely being mean. This
was due to her inability to incorporate Arendt’s works into
her own queerness. The reality was that Arendt’s politics
did transgress the boundaries of modern political theo-
ries’ understanding of feminism in the 1970s and 1980s,
resulting in what came to be primarily antithetical diatribes
to feminist theory as a whole. Heidegger, however, drew
far less attention as he attempted to embrace and then
escape Nazi influences. In spite of their ethnic difficulties,
Arendt would remain his loyal apologist for over two
decades. Unlike the Frankfurters, the works of Heidegger
and Arendt have been overtaken by events that occurred in
the 21st century, even as many of their former students and
students’ students have attempted to keep their theories
alive.
ROBERT DAHL
He was one of the most influential political theorists of
democracy and was once considered the father of Empiri-
cal Democratic Theory and Modern Political Analysis [25].
Dahl was also Yale’s Sterling Professor of Political Sci-
ence.2 Dahl believed in democratic constitutionalism. He
argued that the Bill of Rights (the first 14 amendments
to the United States Constitution) guarantees individual
autonomy. This meant for him that one’s personal life
decisions were outside the jurisdiction of the government.
However, the citizen was required to participate in the
creation of the public good to help determine social,
political, and economic outcomes. Dahl is perhaps most
known for his seminal work on polyarchy (as opposed
to monarchy) where there were several paths to political
sovereignty. This was presented in a life-long series of
works, including A Preface to Democratic Theory (1956),
Who Governs? (1961), Pluralist Democracy in the United
States (1967), and Democracy and Its Critics (1989). Dahl’s
efforts resulted in several generations of students propa-
gating his political views.
JOHN RAWLS’ THEORY OF JUSTICE
A contemporary of Dahl’s was the brilliant scholar, John
Rawls. In the introduction to the 1979 edition of Plato’s
2 Rappa was the student of Deane Neubauer in 1993/4 till 1996.
Republic, Alfred North Whitehead wrote that history (the
Western tradition, the Socratic Method) is nothing but a
series of footnotes to Plato. John Rawls was said to be the
most important philosophers since Plato. In his brilliant
treatise on A Theory of Justice (1971), Rawls explains how
a society of citizens who possess inalienable civil rights
can survive modernity. Rawls’ Theory of Political Liberal-
ism explores how power can be used democratically and
fairly within established democratic institutions. His Law of
Peoples involves his liberal foreign policy of creating a per-
manently peaceful international order. Rawls was clearly
influenced by the idealism of Plato’s Republic, as well as
Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan (1651) and John Locke’s Letter
on Toleration (1689). He showed that the American-held
value of rebelling against a rogue government was drawn
from Locke’s Right to Revolution (1689). For Rawls, political
power is always about the sovereignty of the people as
a unity or a collective democratic body. Here we see the
slight influence of Aristotle rather than Plato. And it led
to some criticism by anti-Rawlsian scholars who did not
believe it was possible to begin with Platonic assumptions
and end with Aristotelian conclusions.
Nevertheless, Rawls believed that in democratic states,
the sovereignty of the people was based on the reasonable
expectation of legitimate government. Legitimate govern-
ment was indeed a challenge for most states within the
democratic transition. This is what justifies the American
political culture of reasonable and legitimate government,
“Since justification is addressed to others, it proceeds from
what is, or can be, held in common; and so, we begin from
shared fundamental ideas implicit in the public political
culture in the hope of developing from them a political
conception that can gain free and reasoned agreement in
judgment (PL, 100–01).”
Rawls’ seminal work on a Theory of Justice is premised
on juridical approaches derived from jurisprudence and
used to interpret the basic values and norms implicit in a
given political culture. Without overtly simplifying Rawls’
theory, one has to understand his two basic principles
in his theory: The first principle argues that each citizen
must have an equal claim to basic civil liberties and that
these liberties must be available to all citizens. The second
principle argues that while socio-economic inequalities are
present in modern societies (as they have in the past); there
remain two conditions that have to be satisfied: (1) all
offices and positions in society must be open and exist
under conditions of fairness of opportunity and (2) any
laws made in a genuine, authentic democracy (and just
society) must benefit or work toward benefiting the least-
advantaged citizens. This is also known as the difference
principle. Rawls says that “all parts of society must have
about the same prospects of culture and achievement for
those similarly motivated and endowed” (JF, p. 44). It is
here that we see how his theory evokes the importance of
redistributive justice as the main key to unlocking justice
as fairness in an authentic democratic political culture. His
5. 64 Antonio L. Rappa
argument that any laws that are enacted must benefit the
least well-off members of society has come under severe
scrutiny by many scholars and those opposed to Rawls’
philosophy. Part of the reason for their disaffection with
the difference principle is that there is no clear distinc-
tion between what Rawls meant by the least-advantaged
citizens and the least well-off members of society. Also,
many Republican politicians were opposed to the differ-
ence principle because it appeared to be an affront to the
history of the American democratic transition itself. Other
economic elites believed that Rawls’ redistributive theory
would lead to massive reductions of wealth among the top
10% of American citizens. Rawls’s Theory of Justice (1971),
while representing a critical keystone text, was perhaps too
elegant to be put into practice. Those interested in his work
should also understand the meaning of equitable outcomes
through justice as fairness, when one imagines a utopian
society through a moral blindfold. As it stands, Rawls’
Theory of Justice (1971) remains too impractical for large
populations.
CONCLUSION: POST-MODERNITY AND
THE FAILURE OF POLITICAL THEORY
Kant’s works have been shown to be difficult to penetrate
for most scholars of German philosophy; while Rawls’ The-
ory of Justice (1971) was shown to have been too elegant and
utopian to implement in late modernity. Both philosophers,
however, did attempt to reveal how authentic freedom of
choice might be attained.
This paper asked if there could be authentic freedom of
choice. The review of the literature on freedom accounted
for competing versions of freedoms and liberties from the
Western tradition. There are various advantages and dis-
advantages to these varieties of conceptual freedom from
the right to the left. The major articulations of freedom
from both normative and positive political theory were
explained in terms of their impact on the history of Western
political thought and hence on the shape of modernity
itself.
It is therefore not surprising that the advent of political
theory has come and gone as increasing generations of
students read the works of political theorists as intellectual
and academic exercises. A large part of the reason for the
lack of modern student interest in political theory as a sub-
field is that: (1) it has not delivered practical applications
as seen in cultural anthropology, architecture, economics,
psychology, and sociology; (2) there has never been much
funding for theoretical research in normative political the-
ory because of the so-called lack of “deliverables,” another
bogus term invented by modern post-Weberian bureau-
crats; (3) political theory as a discipline is exhausted and
the mines have been virtually depleted of new value; and
finally, (4) political theory has been significantly weakened
by the destructive force of post-modern political criticism
of the Grand Narratives associated with ancient, medieval,
and modern political theorists discussed in this paper.
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