Liberalism and Individual Positive Freedom

Reclaiming Liberty

“…5. For representative works of the various modes of criticism mentioned here, see the following sources: Christman (1991); Colie (1965); Kaufman (1962); McBride (1990b); Megone (1987); Renick (1990); Simhony (1993); Skinner (1984Skinner ( , 1998; Taylor (1985). 6.…”

Four Facets of Privacy and Intellectual Freedom in Licensing Contracts for Electronic Journals

“…John Christman has advanced the view that freedom is not simply a matter of absence of constraints, but a quality of agency. 36 On this view, a person is free only if she acts autonomously. Precisely what autonomous action demands is itself deeply contested, but it at least demands that persons be able to act according to their values as they see fit.…”

Privacy and Positive Intellectual Freedom

“…Should she move outside that community to a place where people have a much greater range of opportunity regardless of social status, the constraints imposed on her before would no longer obtain. 24 Yet given her upbringing, she may want nothing of the greater opportunity. Surely there is a sense in which, despite the absence of constraints, she is unfree.…”