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Liberty. --- Liberty --- Civil liberty --- Emancipation --- Freedom --- Liberation --- Personal liberty --- Democracy --- Natural law --- Political science --- Equality --- Libertarianism --- Social control

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Those with a belief in open society base the demand for liberty on the recognition of human ignorance; we need to be free because we are ignorant and fallible. Free social cooperation permits us to mobilize our knowledge and develop methods of discovery through which we can explore the unknown and continually correct our errors. To assent to free cooperation is to accept critical discussion, democracy and the market and in this way we are able to increase our rationality and further political and economic development. Improvement in the conditions of our lives, therefore, does not come from the omniscience attributed to some enlightened legislator or planner. Ignorance and Liberty examines how the market is a place which liberates us from this idea of a privileged source of knowledge. The market is not only a place where goods are exchanged but also where different philosophical ideas and religious beliefs must co-habit, opening up new horizons and undermining the sense of an absolute that prevails in a closed world.

Liberalism. --- Liberty. --- Civil society. --- Civil liberty --- Emancipation --- Freedom --- Liberation --- Personal liberty --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Social contract --- Democracy --- Natural law --- Political science --- Equality --- Libertarianism --- Social control --- Liberty --- Social sciences

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This book presents a new interpretation of the principle of utility in moral and political theory based on the writings of the classical utilitarians from Hume to J.S. Mill. Discussion of utility in writers such as Adam Smith, William Paley and Jeremy Bentham is included.

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- General ethics --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Justice (Philosophy) --- Liberty. --- Utilitarianism. --- Justice (Philosophy). --- Civil liberty --- Emancipation --- Freedom --- Liberation --- Personal liberty --- Democracy --- Natural law --- Political science --- Equality --- Libertarianism --- Social control --- Philosophy --- Ethics --- Hedonism

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Private law --- 347.4 --- Verbintenissen. Overeenkomsten. Verbintenissenrecht. Obligaties. Contracten --- Civil law --- Liberty. --- Obedience (Law) --- Philosophy. --- Obedience (Law). --- 347.4 Verbintenissen. Overeenkomsten. Verbintenissenrecht. Obligaties. Contracten --- Liberty --- Legal obligation --- Obligation, Legal --- Obligation to obey the law --- Law --- Civil liberty --- Emancipation --- Freedom --- Liberation --- Personal liberty --- Democracy --- Natural law --- Political science --- Equality --- Libertarianism --- Social control --- Law, Civil --- Roman law --- Philosophy

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This book reconsiders the dominant Western understandings of freedom through the lens of women's real-life experiences of domestic violence, welfare, and Islamic veiling. Nancy Hirschmann argues that the typical approach to freedom found in political philosophy severely reduces the concept's complexity, which is more fully revealed by taking such practical issues into account. Hirschmann begins by arguing that the dominant Western understanding of freedom does not provide a conceptual vocabulary for accurately characterizing women's experiences. Often, free choice is assumed when women are in fact coerced--as when a battered woman who stays with her abuser out of fear or economic necessity is said to make this choice because it must not be so bad--and coercion is assumed when free choices are made--such as when Westerners assume that all veiled women are oppressed, even though many Islamic women view veiling as an important symbol of cultural identity. Understanding the contexts in which choices arise and are made is central to understanding that freedom is socially constructed through systems of power such as patriarchy, capitalism, and race privilege. Social norms, practices, and language set the conditions within which choices are made, determine what options are available, and shape our individual subjectivity, desires, and self-understandings. Attending to the ways in which contexts construct us as "subjects" of liberty, Hirschmann argues, provides a firmer empirical and theoretical footing for understanding what freedom means and entails politically, intellectually, and socially.

Liberty. --- Feminism. --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- Civil liberty --- Emancipation --- Freedom --- Liberation --- Personal liberty --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Democracy --- Natural law --- Political science --- Equality --- Libertarianism --- Social control