Limits of Liberty

Informationen zum Autor Sarah Conly is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Bowdoin College. She is the author of Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism and One Child: Do We Have a Right to More? Klappentext The Limits of Liberty offers a unique theory of the value of liberty, positing that it is less valuable than we tend to think. The volume provides controversial suggestions in a number of policy fields including medicine, environmental ethics, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Liberty In Itself Has No Value 2. Valuable in Itself, or Valuable as a Means 3. Environmental Ethics 4. Medical Ethics 5. The Ethics of Self-Expression: Speech and Religion 6. Resistance to Change Index Bibliographty

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• Authors: Sarah (Professor Emerita of Philosophy Conly, Conly Sarah
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 02.12.2025
• EAN: 9780197812372
• ISBN: 978-0-19-781237-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ethical issues & debates, Political science and theory, Ethical issues and debates