L'instabilité de la liberté comme non-interférence: Le cas d'Isaiah Berlin

Translated title of the contribution: The Instability of Freedom as Non-interference: The Case of Isaiah Berlin

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Abstract

In Hobbes freedom of choice requires non-frustration: the option you prefer must be accessible. In Berlin it requires non-interference: every option, preferred or un-preferred, must be accessible - every door must be open. But Berlin's argument against Hobbes suggests a parallel argument that freedom requires something stronger still: that each option be accessible and that no one have the power to block access; the doors should be open and there should be no powerful door-keepers. This is freedom as non-domination. The claim is that freedom as non-interference is an unstable alternative between freedom as non-frustration and freedom as non-domination.

Translated title of the contributionThe Instability of Freedom as Non-interference: The Case of Isaiah Berlin
Original languageFrench
Pages (from-to)93-123
Number of pages31
JournalRaisons Politiques
Volume43
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Political Science and International Relations

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