Who among the following scholars in his book 'The Morality of Freedom' asserted that liberty should be…
Legal and political philosopher Joseph Raz, in his seminal perfectionist liberal work 'The Morality of Freedom' (1986), argued that personal autonomy/liberty is not merely…
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Who among the following scholars in his book 'The Morality of Freedom' asserted that liberty should be understood not in value free terms as the mere absence of constraints or coercion, but rather as a means to the pursuit of valuable goals ?
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Legal and political philosopher Joseph Raz, in his seminal perfectionist liberal work 'The Morality of Freedom' (1986), argued that personal autonomy/liberty is not merely the negative absence of coercion, but is valuable only insofar as it enables the pursuit of morally valuable goals and options.
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