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It is a use of unacceptable force when protesters block roads to bring communities and businesses to a standstill or storm a council chamber to cause chaos in a meeting and physically...
means to be free, in what sense (if any) is coercion antithetical to freedom? I. Coercion and Involuntary Action The belief that coercion involves an interference with individual freedom is a central feature of many prominent definitions of the concept. Bentham, for example, thought of coercion as either a compul?
After defining coercion and other cognate terms, the article surveys the limits to (economic) countermeasures and (economic) sanctions, and determines that any ‘sphere of economic freedom’ of states is essentially a relative concept, without an irreducible core.
May 16, 2021 · Some philosophers have presented claims that seem to be best understood as claims about epistemic dependence. They have highlighted that coercion, or facts about the use of coercion, are what help us to distinguish legal systems from other normative systems.
- Lucas Miotto
- 2021
striction of individual freedom. One centrally important task of any adequate theory of coercion is to explain how coer? cion undermines individual freedom. To analyze coercion primarily in terms of rights and obligations (or other moral considerations such as utility maximiza? tion) does not adequately highlight the fact
The law seems to comport with this: an analysis of the law on countermeasures and sanc-tions (and their respective limits) is barely comprehensible against an assumed funda-mental right to be free from economic coercion with a positive, objectively definable con-tent.
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Dec 14, 2011 · Christopher W. Morris. Philosophy, University of Maryland. Article. Metrics. Article contents. Get access Cite Rights & Permissions. Abstract. State power is widely thought to be coercive. The view that governments must wield force or that their power is necessarily coercive is widespread in contemporary political thought.
