scholarly journals Sen’s Conception of Freedom, and a Conjecture on Embodiment

Theoria ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (166) ◽  
pp. 87-112
Author(s):  
Fadi Amer
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
The Other ◽  
Neoclassical Economic ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
Positive Liberty ◽  
Republican Liberty ◽  
Liberal Subjectivity

This article explores Amartya Sen’s understanding of freedom, and performs two central functions, one classificatory and the other substantive in nature. First, I situate his reflections within canonical understandings of liberty, finding an irreducible pluralism incorporating positive liberty in ‘capability’ alongside negative and republican liberty in ‘process’, which is subsequently unified in the notion of ‘comprehensive outcomes’. Secondly, I attempt to find a normative referent for the intrinsic value of choice, and thereby indirectly that of freedom, in his account. In contrast to the liberal subjectivity one might – I believe, mistakenly – attribute to Sen’s deployment of neoclassical economic frameworks, I instead argue for a re-interpretation of his account, inspired by the sociological literature on embodiment. Here, an ‘encumbered’ subject must inherit and transcend a normative totality to become an agent in the fullest sense.

Metamorphosen des Autors im Internet

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Julia Genz
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Periodic Schedule ◽  
Literary Authorship ◽  
The One ◽  
Death Of The Author

Digital media transform social options of access with regard to producers, recipients, and literary works of art themselves. New labels for new roles such as »prosumers « and »wreaders« attest to this. The »blogger« provides another interesting new social figure of literary authorship. Here, some old desiderata of Dadaism appear to find a belated realization. On the one hand, many web 2.0 formats of authorship amplify and widen the freedom of literary productivity while at the same time subjecting such production to a periodic schedule. In comparison to the received practices of authors and recipients many digital-cultural forms of narrating engender innovative metalepses (and also their sublation). Writing in the net for internet-publics enables the deliberate dissolution of the received autobiographical pact with the reader according to which the author’s genuine name authenticates the author’s writing. On the other hand, the digital-cultural potential of dissolving the autobiographical pact stimulates scandals of debunking and unmasking and makes questions of author-identity an issue of permanent contestation. Digital-cultural conditions of communication amplify both: the hideand- seek of authorship as well as the thwarting of this game by recipients who delight in playing detective. In effect, pace Foucault’s and Barthes’ postulates of the death of the author, the personality and biography of the author once again tend to become objects of high intrinsic value

scholarly journals Arsip dan Jaringan Intelektual: Studi tentang Koleksi Nishijima di Universitas Waseda Jepang

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-30
Author(s):  
Arif Rahman Bramantya
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
The Other ◽  
View Point ◽  
Japanese Occupation ◽  
Living Thing ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Evidential Value ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Informational Value

Archives can be said to be "inanimate" if we look it from the physical side. On the other hand, archives can be said to be "a living thing" if we look it in terms of the information that is contained in. Archives can explain anywhere, anytime and any purpose, because archives have evidential value, informational value and intrinsic value. In short, archives is a source of knowledge if we look it through academic view point. Archives in relation to the Japanese occupation in Indonesia is very limited.Nowadays, the study related to the Japanese occupation in Indonesia is also decrease. However, the study about the Japanese occupation in Indonesia in the 80s was massive and varied. Nishijima Collection is one of the valuable sources of knowledge related to the Japanese occupation in Indonesia. Unfortunately, many people do not use the collection as source for their Indonesian study. The result of this study provides a new perspective on the materials related with the Japanese occupation in Indonesia contained in Nishijima Collection. Intellectual network was formed through Nishijima Collection. Eventually, the study about Nishijima Collection through the historical method can be an initial foundation to raise the historical awareness that will be able to affect the civilization (of Indonesia).

The Emerging Standard Neurobiological Model of Decision Making

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shih-Wei Wu ◽  
Paul W. Glimcher
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Economic Theory ◽  
Neural Activity ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Neoclassical Economic ◽  
Internal Representations ◽  
Neurobiological Model ◽  
Neoclassical Economic Theory ◽  
The Brain

The standard neurobiological model of decision making has evolved, since the turn of the twenty-first century, from a confluence of economic, psychological, and neurosci- entific studies of how humans make choices. Two fundamental insights have guided the development of this model during this period, one drawn from economics and the other from neuroscience. The first derives from neoclassical economic theory, which unambiguously demonstrated that logically consistent choosers behave “as if” they had some internal, continuous, and monotonic representation of the values of any choice objects under consideration. The second insight derives from neurobiological studies suggesting that the brain can both represent, in patterns of local neural activity, and compare, by a process of interneuronal competition, internal representations of value associated with different choices.

Freedom as a Skill

1983 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 197-215
Author(s):  
K. R. Minogue
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Positive Liberty ◽  
The Will

The word ‘freedom’ leads a double life. As a rallying cry in the mouths of politicians and publicists, it features in speech acts which inspire men to brave endeavours. Freedom or death are the proffered alternatives, and they are generally linked with fatiguing dispositions such as vigilance. As a philosophical concept, on the other hand, freedom is a territory in which battles are fought about such issues as positivity and negativity, virtue, determinism and the character of the will. There is remarkably little connection between these two lives. Philosophers do not seem to take much interest in courage, and politicians do not tarry to specify whether it is negative or positive liberty they are talking about.

Freedom as a Skill

1983 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 197-215
Author(s):  
K. R. Minogue
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Positive Liberty ◽  
The Will

The word ‘freedom’ leads a double life. As a rallying cry in the mouths of politicians and publicists, it features in speech acts which inspire men to brave endeavours. Freedom or death are the proffered alternatives, and they are generally linked with fatiguing dispositions such as vigilance. As a philosophical concept, on the other hand, freedom is a territory in which battles are fought about such issues as positivity and negativity, virtue, determinism and the character of the will. There is remarkably little connection between these two lives. Philosophers do not seem to take much interest in courage, and politicians do not tarry to specify whether it is negative or positive liberty they are talking about.

The Voice of Feeling

2019 ◽  
pp. 123-139
Author(s):  
Dan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
The Other ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Liberal Culture ◽  
Voice Flow ◽  
Liberal Subjectivity ◽  
The Voice ◽  
The Way

This chapter addresses the nature of social worlds that coalesce around events of speech in two films from contemporary liberal culture: Love Actually (2003) and The King’s Speech (2010). Though one centers on romantic union and the other on the union of nation, both films culminate in scenes whose formal outlines are nearly identical: a character played by Colin Firth must deliver a speech, though his ability to speak is in some way compromised, and the coherence of a social order hangs on his ability to make his voice flow. By locating the drama of intersubjectivity in the individual’s capacity simply to produce a voice, these cases offer an alternative to a visual grammar of intimacy located in the return of the other’s gaze. Instead, they resonate with theories of liberal subjectivity that emphasize the way in which speaking itself produces an efflorescence of personhood. By focusing on speech and not the gaze, these accounts suggest that the other may be structurally negligible in cinematic scenes of recognition. The formal structure of intimate and national resolution in these films indicates a broader blueprint of liberal togetherness, one in which a certain concept of the voice sustains and unites an idea of individual expressiveness with the promise of a collectivity magnetized by feeling.

Private and Public Preferences

1990 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timur Kuran
Keyword(s):  
Revealed Preference ◽  
The Other ◽  
Neoclassical Economic ◽  
Public Preferences ◽  
The Core ◽  
Economic Method ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Government

The theory of revealed preference, which lies at the core of the neoclassical economic method, asserts that people's preference orderings are revealed by their actions. This assertion has two possible meanings, of which one is a truism and the other false. When a person joins a riot against the government, he reveals through this action that he would rather riot than not. This is the sense in which the assertion is a truism. But if one means that the person must want a change of government, this is certainly false. His decision to riot could mean only that he considers it dangerous to stay on the sidelines.

The Psychological Dangers of Positive Liberty: Reconstructing a Neglected Undercurrent in Isaiah Berlin's “Two Concepts of Liberty”

2014 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Gustavsson
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Specific Kind ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Predictable Pattern ◽  
Positive Liberty ◽  
Contemporary Liberalism

AbstractBerlin is often taken to have exaggerated his case against positive liberty, since contrary to what he seems to argue, several versions of it do not logically justify coercion. A more historical interpretation of his warnings may save him from this accusation, yet on the other hand suggests his message is of little relevance for contemporary liberalism. In contrast to both these approaches, this essay considers a third and largely neglected aspect of “Two Concepts of Liberty,” that speaks more directly to the challenges facing liberalism today: Berlin's warning that positive liberty invites the specific kind of coercion that parades as liberation, and that it does so according to a psychologically predictable pattern. After reconstructing this undercurrent in Berlin's critique of positive liberty, this essay also considers the relevance of Berlin's warnings to contemporary European debates on banning the Muslim veil in the name of liberation.

Use of Folk Medicine by Elderly Mexican-American Women

1989 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Sanchez Mayers
Keyword(s):  
Mexican American ◽  
Hispanic Women ◽  
Folk Medicine ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mexican American Women ◽  
Folk Healing ◽  
Healing System ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
Clear Idea ◽  
Folk Healers

There is a vast anthropological/sociological literature on the use of folk healers in Hispanic (Mexican - American) communities. While the use of folk healers has decreased with urbanization, acculturation, and increased education, recent studies done in Dallas, Texas, show that elderly Hispanic women are familiar with, and use a variety of informal healing methods and substances for a variety of illnesses, both physical and mental. The folk-healing system is used to supplement the formal scientific one, rather than replace it. Informants seemed to have a clear idea about the point at which one or the other should be consulted. There are a variety of herbs readily available for use and sold in boticas or botanicas.

Animal Liberationist Responses to Non-Anthropogenic Animal Suffering

2006 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Thornhill ◽  
Michael Morris
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
The Other ◽  
Individual Animal ◽  
Animal Suffering ◽  
Animal Liberation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Individual Human

AbstractAnimal liberationists generally pay little attention to the suffering of animals in the wild, and it is arguable that this is a significant proportion of the total amount of animal suffering. We examine a range of different responses of animal liberationists to the issue of non-anthropogenic suffering, but find none of them entirely satisfactory. Responses that lead logically to the conclusion that anthropogenic suffering should be eliminated can apply equally logically to the suffering of animals in the wild. On the other hand, the solution of micro-managing habitats to prevent suffering is counter-intuitive, and on closer examination eliminates the intrinsic value of animals' lives. On balance, the approach that we favour is acceptance of the intrinsic value of individual animal lives, extending this from either individual human lives (as accepted predominantly by theists), or from biodiversity, species and ecosystems (as currently accepted by ecocentric philosophies). We also suggest that the combination of animal liberation and environmentalism only really makes sense in the context of a belief in the redeemable qualities of nature, as expressed in quasi-Hindu terms or in terms of some Biblical animal liberationist worldviews.

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