<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The article concerns selected problems related to the postulates of equalizing the level of positive liberty. The classic understanding of individual freedom, called as negative (freedom from), identified with a <italic>lack of compulsion</italic>, can be in opposition to the so-called positive liberty (freedom to). The last notion is generally defined by an <italic>ability</italic>, which brings its relation with a concept of power. The postulate of equality in “freedom to” can be justification for conducting a social redistribution of goods. The cases of voluntary and compulsory donation are considered in the text, whose aim is to visualize consequences resulting from a compulsory expansion of the scope of positive liberty.</p></abstract>

The article concerns selected problems related to the postulates of equalizing the level of positive liberty. The classic understanding of individual freedom, called as negative (freedom from), identified with a lack of compulsion, can be in opposition to the so-called positive liberty (freedom to). The last notion is generally defined by an ability, which brings its relation with a concept of power. The postulate of equality in “freedom to” can be justification for conducting a social redistribution of goods. The cases of voluntary and compulsory donation are considered in the text, whose aim is to visualize consequences resulting from a compulsory expansion of the scope of positive liberty.

An Analysis of the Equal Freedom

University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Studia Humana

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The article concerns selected problems related to the postulates of equalizing the level of positive liberty. The classic understanding of individual freedom,...

An Analysis of the Equal Freedom

Published Online: Nov 01, 2017

Page range: 5 - 14

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sh-2017-0018

Keywords
political philosophy, ethics, freedom, positive liberty, negative liberty

© 2017 Andrzej Stoiński, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

An Analysis of the Equal Freedom

Published Online: Nov 01, 2017

Page range: 5 - 14

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sh-2017-0018

Keywordspolitical philosophy, ethics, freedom, positive liberty, negative liberty

© 2017 Andrzej Stoiński, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
political philosophy, ethics, freedom, positive liberty, negative liberty