03225nam a22005175i 4500 978-3-031-61181-0 DE-He213 20251030112620.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240709s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031611810 978-3-031-61181-0 10.1007/978-3-031-61181-0 doi B65 HPS bicssc PHI019000 bisacsh QDTS thema Rainbolt, George W. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 80251 Freedom as Non-Constraint [electronic resource] : Beyond Non-Interference and Non-Domination / by George W. Rainbolt. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. X, 216 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Human and Natural Constraints -- Chapter 3. Interference and Domination -- Chapter 4. Control -- Chapter 5. Degrees of Freedom -- Chapter 6. Measurement. When is a person free to do something? The focus of much of the recent work on this question has been the debate between those who defend freedom as non-interference (aka liberals) and those who defend freedom as non-domination (aka republicans). This book defends a new answer to this question, freedom as non-constraint. According to freedom as non-constraint, both interference and domination cause unfreedom, both human and natural constraints cause unfreedom, and both controlled and uncontrolled interference cause unfreedom. Compared to liberal and republican theories, freedom as non-constraint provides a better account of systemic and structural threats to freedom, a better picture of how market forces and governments impact freedom, and a better understanding of how the natural world constrains freedom. Freedom as non-constraint also provides a new account of the scalarity of freedom and points to the limits on our ability to measure freedom with precision. George W. Rainbolt is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Florida (USA), where he has also served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of The Concept of Rights (Springer 2006). Political science Philosophy. 57588 Political science. 58714 Social sciences Philosophy. 60803 Political Philosophy. 66964 Political Theory. 70609 Social Philosophy. 66963 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031611803 Printed edition: 9783031611827 Printed edition: 9783031611834 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61181-0 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 61456 61456