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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"positive freedom"”.
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Safeguarding a liberal system of states : Reinterpreting states' freedoms in increasing interdependence
… on relative sovereignty, in which states' freedom to exercise their sovereignty (positive freedom) is inherently limited by the need to protect other states' domestic affairs against interference (negative freedom). Ideally, when facing global problems, states co-operate with each other to …
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A Theory of Racial Oppression and Liberation
… be understood in terms of a related notion of freedom, requires a ""positive"" theory of freedom, rather than the ""negative"" one that dominates contemporary discourse on race. Chapters two and three develop a concept of positive freedom, and a corresponding understanding of racism (as a …
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Does Collaboration Matter? A Paradigm for Practical Educational Research
… to our understanding of 'collaboration' and 'positive freedom' by conceptualising them as qualities of human relationships, judged by their diversity rather than conformity to shared aims, I show how police training culture reproduces conformity, how it may be confronted, and how collaborative …
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THE THREE CATEGORIES OF CREATIVE FREEDOM: GOD, SELF-CONTROL, AND COMMUNITY
… explain and inform a robust theory of creative freedom. I defend the claim that those three categories are: Peirce’s idea of God, understood as his idea of an evolving cosmos open to growth, as firstness; self-control and our capacity to deliberate in order to make choices as secondness; and the …
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Educating for Democracy: Reviving Rhetoric in the General Education Curriculum
This study is, in part, a response to arguments that claim higher education fails to prepare students with fundamental communication skills necessary for everyday life and indicative of "educated" persons. Though the validity of such arguments is contestable, they nonetheless reflect fundamental …