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  • Introduction

  • John Christman, Pennsylvania State University
  • Book:
    Reconceiving Freedom from the Shadows of Slavery
    Published online:
    02 January 2025
    Print publication:
    09 January 2025, pp 1-18
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  • Summary

    This chapter outlines the book’s motivations, its main argument, and competing positions to which the book’s arguments contrast.

Reconceiving Freedom from the Shadows of Slavery
  • Liberty in a Nonideal World
  • John Christman
  • Published online:
    02 January 2025
    Print publication:
    09 January 2025
  • In a departure from standard approaches to the concept of liberty, in this book John Christman locates and defends the concept of freedom as a fundamental social value that arose out of fights against slavery and oppression. Seen in this light, liberty must be understood as requiring more than mere non-interference or non-domination – it requires the capacity for self-government and the capabilities needed to pursue valued activities, practices, and ways of life. Christman analyses the emergence of freedom as a concept through nineteenth- and twentieth-century struggles against slavery and other oppressive social forms, and argues that a specifically positive conception best reflects its origins and is philosophically defensible in its own right. What results is a model of freedom that captures its fundamental value both as central to the theoretical architecture of constitutional democracies and as an aspiration for those striving for liberation.

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