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  1. Feb 27, 2003 · While theorists of negative freedom are primarily interested in the degree to which individuals or groups suffer interference from external bodies, theorists of positive freedom are more attentive to the internal factors affecting the degree to which individuals or groups act autonomously.

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  2. In the Critique of Pure Reason, especially in the Third Antinomy, Kant offers arguments for a solution to the problem of freedom and necessity which seem to do justice to the claims of libertarianism and determinism. My restricted aim in this short book is to decide whether any of them is sound.

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  3. Jan 1, 1998 · It follows that freedom is a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for happiness. Individual happiness can be defined as the positive conscious emotional experience that accompanies or derives from the use of one’s human potentialities, including one’s talents, capabilities, and virtues.

  4. Jun 9, 2021 · How then can our thought and action be free in responding to the reasons there are and yet at the same time be shaped by the causal order of nature? The problem has to do with how reasons (not simply our ideas of reasons) can be causes, and this chapter explains how it is possible.

  5. ond condition characterized in three alternative ways: (1) no dependence, (2) no interference, or (3) achievement of self-realization. Though Skinner clearly intends to systematize accounts of civil liberty, none of the three. conditions actually requires the existence of a political association.

  6. Dec 22, 2011 · From a social point of view, she/he must be reasonably free from others’ interference. By focusing on the social determinants of autonomy only, freedom is a necessary (but not a sufficient) condition for persons to live autonomously.

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  8. cause or causes in the form of a sufficient condition, which prevents either the making of a decision or the putting of it into effect. Nor is the situation in respect of causality essentially different in

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