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Chapter 1 - Unity and Disunity in the Positive Tradition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2021

By
Michael Garnett
Edited by
John Christman
John Christman
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
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Summary

This chapter aims to bring the positive conception into better focus by tracing the positive tradition through some of its twists and turns, and considering in what ways it might qualify as a single tradition. Drawing on the lessons of this survey, a way of thinking about the nature of positive freedom is suggested that is both principled and historically informed.

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positive freedom traditionevaluative unificationwell-beingPlatoStoicism
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Positive Freedom
Past, Present, and Future
 , pp. 8 - 27
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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