Chapter 4 Flashcards
(40 cards)
Restricts the exercise of freedom
External coercion
Lack of constraint
Traditional freedom
Who “wrote” the Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Human beings are greedy and selfish and fundamentally grounded and stirred by craving for wealth and power
Hobbes’ Leviathan
Who wrote the Two Treatises of Government
John Locke
Summarizes Locke’s political ideas for a more civilized society grounded on natural rights and social contract
The second treatise
believed that men and women are created equal
Locke
Father of liberalism
Locke
who wrote the On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
“Individual freedom should only be restricted to forestall harm to others”
Mill
viewed freedom with minimal limits
Locke & Mill
Believed in the greater limits of exercising freedom
Hobbes
Self-mastery. Right possession and awareness of values to recognize the source of one’s strengths and weaknesses
Positive freedom
who wrote the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant
Freedom is not about following one’s passions but controlling them
Kant
who wrote the Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
the individual has enviable freedom under the state of nature
Rousseau
Social agreement among individuals that have a collective will and common interest to preserve a free political society
Social Contract
“Every man is against every man” - Freedom is compromised
Homo Homini Lupus
four kinds of freedom
Natural, Civil, Democratic, Moral Freedom
Who wrote Escape from Freedom
Erich Fromm
Freedom means self-realization
Fromm
Reason is not enough tot e a vanguard of human freedom as it can only be accomplished fusion of human potentialities
Fromm
Who wrote Philosophy of freedom
Rudolf Steiner