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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Positive liberty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Positive liberty is often described as freedom to achieve certain ends, while negative liberty is described as freedom from external coercion.
The idea of positive liberty is often emphasized by those on the left-wing of the political spectrum, whereas negative liberty is most important for those who lean towards libertarianism.
Defenders of positive liberty say that there is no need for it to have such totalitarian undertones, and that there is a great difference between a government providing positive liberty to its citizens and a government presuming to make their decisions for them.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Positive_liberty   (378 words)

  
 Civil rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When those grants were later found inadequate, civil rights movements emerged as the vehicle for claiming more equal protection for all citizens and advocating new laws to restrict the effect of current discriminations.
Civil rights can in one sense refer to the equal treatment of all citizens irrespective of race, sex, or other class, or it can refer to laws which invoke claims of positive liberty.
Nozick, therefore, believed that there are no positive civil rights, only rights to property and the right of autonomy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Civil_rights   (2120 words)

  
 Feminist Ethics
A father's subtle pressure that his artistic son give up the theater and go to law school may not be as evident an abuse of power as the executive who steals his assistant's ideas and presents them as his own, but both situations exploit and undercut the autonomy of the two relatively powerless agents involved.
Daly is Nietzschean not because she posits two types of morality — a superior female morality and an inferior male morality — but because she insists that when it comes to women, she whom the patriarch calls "evil," is in fact good, whereas she whom the patriarch calls "good" is in fact bad.
If a woman is to escape the traps men have laid for her — if she is to assert her power, to be all that she can — she must realize that it is not good for her to sacrifice, deny, and deprive herself for the sake of the men and children in her life.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/feminism-ethics   (10044 words)

  
 I could be wrong....   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Rather, it allows academics to neglect the scholarship they were hired to pursue, and instead to exploit the platform of their position by pontificating at length to anyone who will listen--and to students who often have no choice but to listen--on subjects about which they are manifestly ignorant.
Often, when someone focuses on a specific minor injustice, to the exclusion of large classes of related ones, it's because the intended solution is not to remedy the injustice, but to counterbalance it--that is, to favor the allegedly wronged person or group.
Since there is proof positive of repression of the anti-extreme-left in my university and my department, I propose that the State should insist that every hiring committee have at least one anti-extreme-left person on it.
icouldbewrong.blogspot.com   (9577 words)

  
 Annotated Bibliography of Futures Studies books and articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Posits four futures: continued growth, steady state, collapse and transformation.
While one might expect this report to be heavily Western and litany biased, in fact, the editors to a good job to move out of this position.
The task is to enivision utopias from different historical and cultural positions.
www.metafuture.org /bio.htm   (7020 words)

  
 Peace Bibliography I-Q   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Liddington, Jill, The Road to Greenham Common: Feminism and Anti-Militarism in Britain Since 1820, Syracuse Univ. Press, Syracuse, NY, 1991.
Lynn, Susan, Progressive Women in Conservative Times: Racial Justice, Peace and Feminism, Rutgers Univ. Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 1993.
Mitscherlich, Margarete, Peaceable Sex: On Aggression in Women and Men, Fromm International Pub., Port Washington, NY, 1987.
www.centeronconscience.org /biblio_I-Q.htm   (12137 words)

  
 de Beauvoir
Through her lifelong friendship with Sartre, she contributed significantly to the development and expression of existentialist philosophy.
Beauvoir and the Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism
An analysis of philosophical influences on The Second Sex from Margaret Simons.
www.philosophypages.com /ph/beav.htm   (228 words)

  
 Molinari Institute
Wendy McElroy’s Roots of Individualist Feminism in 19th-Century America
Roderick T. Long’s Dialectical Feminism: The Unknown Ideal
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk’s The Positive Theory of Capital (1888)
praxeology.net /anarcres.htm   (3464 words)

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