Dissertations / Theses: 'Liberty of'

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Lewis, S. Joshua. "The terms of liberty : freedom, autonomy, and liberal theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334995.

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Carpenter, Susan Streeter. "Liberty Boulevard." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1122389263.

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Orner, Phyllis June. "Lady Liberty." University of the Western Cape, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5544.

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Randeraad, Nico. "Authority in search of liberty : the prefects in liberal Italy /." Amsterdam : Thesis publ, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35825642n.

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Horn, Samuel E. "A biblical theology of Christian liberty an analysis of the major Pauline passages in Galatians, Colossians, I Corinthians, and Romans /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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van, Zwol Erik. "Responsibility, spontaneity and liberty." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Humanities, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5763.

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Isaiah Berlin maintains that there are two distinct forms of freedom or liberty: negative and positive. Berlin’s principal claim is that negative liberty does not require that the self be somehow separate from the empirical world (causally aloof, or an originator of causal chains). My principal claim is that to be an agent is to be committed to a separation of self in this sense, thus that the self for its very being requires to possess a species of positive liberty. This conception proceeds in part from Immanuel Kant’s claim that there is a separation between spontaneity and receptivity. Commitment to this assertion allows there to be an understood distinction between the self as a spontaneous self-active agent that makes choices, and the self as a mere reactionary brute that does what it does by biological imperatives. In this thesis, I defend the view that negative liberty is subsumed under positive liberty: you cannot have the former without the latter. I am therefore taking a rationalist stance towards Berlin’s thinking. My methodology is to bring into consideration two perspectives upon the underlying normative principles within the space of reason. The first is of Kant’s understanding of the principle of responsibility and the activity of spontaneity; the second is John McDowell’s understanding of that principle and activity. The key claim of this thesis is that Berlin misunderstands what it is to be a chooser. To be a chooser is to be raised under the idea that one is an efficient cause; human children are brought up being held responsible for their reasons for acting. This principle allows mere animal being to be raised into the space of reason, where we live out a second nature in terms of reason. Using their conclusions I further investigate Berlin’s understanding of conceptual frameworks, taking particular interest in historic ‘universal’ conceptions that shape human lives. He too finds that that we are choosers is necessary for what it is to be human. I take his conclusion, and suggest that if he had had a clear understanding of the space of reason, the historic claim that we have choice would find a more solid footing in the principle of that space, in that we are responsible for our actions. I conclude that the upshot of understanding the ‘I’ as an originating efficient cause is that we treat ourselves as free from a universal determinism that Berlin himself disparages; and that the cost to Berlin is that all choice is necessarily the activity of a higher choosing self. It is part of a Liberal society’s valuing, by their societal commitment to, the ideology of raising our children to understand themselves as choosers, that we have choice at all. This is irrespective of whether that which fetters choice is internal or external to the agent, or of whether having self-conscious itself requires such a cultural emergence of second nature.

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Bagnall, Gary Payne. "A theory of liberty." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336731.

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Tame, Chris R. "Towards a science of liberty : reclaiming a tradition in classical liberal thought." Thesis, Middlesex University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.568556.

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Most conventional academic works generally offer a highly restricted view of the history and nature of classical liberalism. This is perhaps not surprising since most book-length histories of the liberal tradition have been written by authors who are either outright ideological opponents (Harold Laski, The Rise of European Liberalism, Anthony Arblaster, The Rise and Decline of Western Liberalism) (1) or at best luke-warm "neo-liberals", out of sympathy with core tenets of classical liberalism (Guido De Ruggiero, The History of European Liberalism, Jose G. Merquior, Liberalism, Old and New) (2). Even when the source of that restricted view is fairly obvious - ideological hostility or disdain - and can hence be taken into account, such accounts suffer from a deeper failure to perceive or portray the character of the o liberal tradition. However, worse still, in some respects, are works which actually reduce liberalism to a vague "tendency" or "attitude", and hence rob it of almost any sort of substantive character or content (Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America, Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination, Ken Minogue, The Liberal Mind, Arthur A. Ekirch, The Decline of American Liberalism) (3). Text book accounts similarly tend to offer selective renditions of, for example, "Locke, Smith, Bentham and Mill" (or of some similar but equally restricted pantheon), as the sum-total of the liberal tradition (or at least the sum-total of that worthy of academic attention) (eg, George H. Sabine, A History of Political Theory and John Plamenatz, Man and Society: A Critical Examination of Some Important Social and Political Thought From Machiavelli to Marx) (4). In their choice of intellectual representatives all these renditions have in common a version of liberalism which tends to be narrowly economistic in approach and/or restricted to empiricist, positivist, and utilitarian currents of thought. Indeed, it is also significant that there is actually no comprehensive, multi-volume history of liberalism - in comparison to the many such works on the history of socialism in general or Marxism in particular. The works submitted in this application for PhD attempt to demonstrate that classical liberalism (or "libertarianism", to employ the more recent neologism for this intellectual tradition) was a richer, deeper and more systematic school of thought than is normally portrayed. They also try to analyse why that tradition went into decline, and why it has, in recent years, enjoyed a revival. A number of the essays are also attempts to apply that more systematic perspective to a number of topics in different disciplines.

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Scribellito, Giorgia. "Political freedom in a pluralistic democracy : the compatibility of positive liberty and negative liberty /." Connect to online version, 2005. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/www/2005/114.pdf.

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FALCONE, FILIPPO. "MILTON'S INWARD LIBERTY A STUDY OF CHRISTIAN LIBERTY FROM THE PROSE TO PARADISE LOST." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/173513.

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Twenty Eleven was a year of revolutions in northern Africa and the Middle East. Rising in Tunisia, the revolutionary wave has spread through Egypt, Libya, Syria and other countries. The common denominator of all insurgencies has been the people’s desire to shake off a long-endured yoke of tyranny which had resulted in a stagnant economy, poor life conditions and poorer public liberties. The word ‘democracy’ has become the catalyst of all aspirations. However, where the overthrowing of the dictator has succeeded, reform has been slow to come to pass, opening the door to new, potentially worse, forms of tyranny. The revolution John Milton envisioned during the years of England’s Interregnum was itself one of liberty. Toward such end he worked tirelessly for some two decades. He worked to see liberty projected in all areas of social and political life. Criticism has largely read this as the result of Milton’s apprehension of individual liberty as only fully definable within the context of public liberties. The present work argues that liberty is more appropriately seen in Milton as the rightful portion of the Christian man. In other words, liberty is more appropriately defined in Milton as Christian liberty. Liberal laws and institutions might afford relative liberties, through negotiation of individual and collective freedom, but never true liberty, the latter residing within: the man who was inwardly a slave, a slave must remain, irrespective of outward liberties. However, the man who was inwardly free, free must remain, irrespective of outward restraint. Inasmuch as it entails the restoration of mind and conscience from sin to inward liberty, Christian liberty is found setting the terms for the creation of an inward microcosm of rest and authority. If the work of Milton’s left hand is best read as Milton’s attempt at actualizing its pervasive domestic, ecclesiological and political ramifications, failure to see it reflected in his temporal community would alert the poet to the need for man to individually appropriate it, mindful that only the man who was inwardly free would be able to change his world.

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Olsaretti, Serena. "Liberty, desert, and the market." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.342879.

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MAGALHÃES, LEONARDO VELLO DE. "CONFLICT AND LIBERTY IN MAQUIAVELLI." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2015. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=26901@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
O objetivo deste trabalho visa analisar a relação entre o conflito de grandes e povo e a liberdade política dele decorrente. Para tanto, inicialmente, será feito um estudo de como Maquiavel entende a virtú e a fortuna. Após, analisar-se-á a forma como Maquiavel pensa a ética, a religião, a moral, a Política, as armas, a liberdade e a igualdade. Uma vez dissecadas essas premissas básicas e necessárias, passar-se-á ao estudo da teoria dos humores que se inicia com a máxima que o povo não quer ser dominado e oprimido, enquanto que os grandes desejam dominar e oprimir. Posteriormente, será demonstrado como se deram os Conflitos das Cidades, iniciando-se com o modelo Romano, o modelo Florentino e o modelo de Esparta e Veneza. Estabelecidas às bases de seu pensamento, será demonstrada que a lei, resultante do conflito entre os grandes e o povo, gera a liberdade de todo o corpo político.
This study aims to analyze the relationship between conflict of the great and the people and political freedom brought by this. Therefore, initially, a study of how Machiavelli understands the virtu and fortune will be made. After, we will examine how Machiavelli thinks about ethics, religion, morality, policy, guns, freedom and equality. Once dissected the this basic assumptions, the study will analyze the theory of humors, that starts with the maximum that people do not want to be dominated and oppressed, while the great wish exactly to dominate and oppress them. After that, the study proceeds about how were the Conflict of Cities, beginning with the Roman model, Florence model, the model of Sparta and Venice. After established the bases of his thought, this work will demonstrate that the resulting law of conflict between the great and the people generates the freedom of all political body.

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Salman, Basil. "An analysis of negative liberty." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8725de30-bd73-4eb3-b9f1-e32c8d2ef668.

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Too many people analyse the concept of negative liberty in a way that obscures its place and significance in our lives. Here I seek to redress the balance by shining light on its structure and value. With respect to the essential structure of negative liberty and unfreedom, I push for a more intuitive, dynamic, and subjectivist agent-centred approach in place of the more mechanistic Hobbesian and austere Hayekian conceptions that have tended to predominate. Emphasising the importance of self-direction, authenticity and self-development to liberty delivers both a more coherent negative concept internally, and a notion that is more compellingly distinguished from its positive counterpart. Regarding liberty's relationship with coercion and manipulation, my explanation is that rational and emotional compulsion constrains negative liberty because it interferes with options and restricts freedom of choice. With respect to the significance of negative freedom and why we care about it, I consider its general, content-independent value to lie in its contributions to autonomy as well as to values more often associated with positive freedom such as individuality and self-realisation. Harnessing Mill's thesis, I highlight the importance of self-understanding and self-knowledge in the process of self-development, and explain from a non-utilitarian angle the nature of the negative opposition to paternalism and control.

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Caravedo, Joan. "Truth and Liberty in Kierkegaard." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/119566.

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This paper proposes an introduction to the Kierkegaardian relation between freedom and truth. In order to do this, mainly paying attention to his Philosophical Fragments, it begins with the Socratic problem of acquiring truth. After this, it focuses on truth as the fruit of God’s free love, whence emerges the topic of freedom. Finally, this theme leads to the Kierkegaardian account of becoming, and specifically to the relation between possibility and reality. Throughout this exposition, the central concept that articulates this itinerary is the “instant”, understanding it as the point of convergence between the eternal and the temporal, stressing the paradox therein.
El texto propone una aproximación introductoria a la relación entre libertad y verdad. Para lograr esto seguirá una ruta, amparada fundamentalmente en el texto de Kierkegaard Migajas filosóficas, que comenzará con el problema socrático en torno a la adquisición de la verdad, pasando a considerar la dación de la verdad fruto del amor gratuito de Dios, desde el cual habrá de emerger el tema de la libertad que, por último, terminará por conducirnos a la explicación kierkegaardiana del devenir y, específicamente, al tema de la relación entre posibilidad y realidad. En esta exposición, el concepto que procurará articular todo nuestro recorrido será el de instante, entendiendo este como punto de confluencia entre lo eterno y lo temporal y resaltando la paradoja aquí implicada.

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Guy, Rita. "Pour une pastorale libératrice relative à l'avortement /." Thèse, Montréal : Université de Montréal, 1989. http://theses.uqac.ca.

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Thèse (M.A.Th.)--Université de Montreal, 1989.
"Mémoire présenté à la Faculté des études supérieures en vue de l'obtention du grade de Maître es arts (M.A.) en Théologie - Études pastorales" CaQCU Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

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McHone, Steven Craig. "The Relationship of human freedom to the moral problem of evil." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.

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Gilboa, David. "The economic conditions of political liberty." The Ohio State University, 1989. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/42197316.html.

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Tchoudnowsky, Alexis. "Aristotle and the metaphysics of liberty." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.335915.

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Adams, Steven. "Liberty of conscience and mass schooling." Thesis, The Florida State University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3681681.

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Public education in the United States has seen many changes over the years. Some of those changes came in response to what are now recognized as clear problems with religious liberty in the common education system adopted in the mid 1800's. This dissertation reviews past and current ideas related to religious liberty and the larger issue of liberty of conscience (Nussbaum, 2008) in education and pursues a research question by considering past and current issues. Does a system of general, mass education necessarily infringe upon students' liberty of conscience? This question is pursued following a Deweyan framework of philosophy of education wherein a "felt difficulty" is identified, information is gathered to apply to the difficulty, and possible solutions to problems identified (Dewey, 1938).

I begin with a discussion of liberty of conscience and a discussion of some of the conflicts included in a system of mass education. This establishes the structure of the difficulty, or problem. The history of the public education system in the United States is reviewed with a focus on the common education system adapted in the 1830's along with relevant issues related to religious intolerance. Improvements in the respect for religious diversity applied to that system over time and improvements proposed but not yet fully implemented are discussed. Ideas from religious intolerance literature is introduced to add insight and expose the larger issue of liberty of conscience including how those ideas can be applied to educational systems. The process of religious intolerance (Corrigan & Neal, 2010) is developed into an architecture of religious intolerance that can assist with identifying this type of intolerance in educational settings.

I argue that while many of the strongest issues of religious intolerance in public education have been resolved, many problems still remain. I will also argue that the intolerance is not limited to religious intolerance but includes intolerance for ideas stemming from many different epistemic foundations. This will lead to a consideration of an idea I have labeled as epistemic intolerance. These arguments support an answer to the research question, which is that a system of general, mass education does necessarily infringe on students' liberty of conscience if one or more cultural majorities centrally control that system of education.

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Westervelt, Nathalie M. (Nathalie Marie). "East of Liberty : reclaiming Main Street." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34419.

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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-67).
Although we were taught about the success of the Civil Rights movement in elementary school, it is undeniable that socioeconomic differences create community borders throughout the world. Specifically discussed here is East Liberty part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's "East End." Over a forty-five year period East Liberty has been disassociated from her neighbors and become an archipelago like many of Pittsburgh's neighborhoods. Since the sixties, when the first interventions were commissioned by David L. Lawrence's Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), development reinforced already present socioeconomic barriers and people began to fear East Liberty, on the other side of the tracks from Shadyside. Today, the URA no longer directly influences design, but oversees the federal funding that non profit Community Development Corporations (CDCs) receive for the commercial and residential development projects. Ironically, CDCs are comprised of real-estate brokers, not politicians, architects, nor planners. Economically, East Liberty is improving if the big box stores make profits, then the land will generate revenue from taxes and its value will rise. If more developers and business owners take interest, the empty storefronts will fill. This process, however, should include a plan for the retention of the poorer residents who wish to remain in their homes. The cost of economic success is the continual displacement of those who do not have any stake in where they live due to their dependence on the government. Displacement severs familial and community roots inhibiting the success of both.
(cont.) To paraphrase Lao-Tsu: a thing must take root in order to be nourished. Thus this thesis addresses the necessity to create opportunity as well as architecture when planning the redesign of a poor community. To this end, this thesis proposes that in order to redevelop, the community must build from within. The proposal here is to plan a series of developments that will tie East Liberty into the East End. The first development is a Building Arts School capable of providing Bachelors degrees in the Arts and the Sciences and dedicated to the education of the poor who live in the East End. In addition to creating a catalyst for urban and economic growth, this school provides a means to raise one's social status through education and marketable skills. With East Liberty as its campus, the school will provide much needed public space and a re-connection to the other side of the tracks inasmuch as it is one of a network of developments based upon the projected rise in traffic caused by the school, connecting bus hub and bridge to Shadyside. The chosen site, a point along bus way, at a major bus stop, and in the periphery between three neighborhoods is optimal because the architecture acts as a gateway, a beacon and a connector. Providing a monumental continuity between inside and outside, this project is 4 an initial urban intervention a chain of reactions that will reclaim the civic space of Penn Avenue, the Main Street of the East End and the opportunities that once were there. East Liberty is an interesting case study because it shows the strata of abandonment and renewal common to many American post-industrial cities.
(cont.) It is a protagonist in the saga of the rise and fall of the railroad and steel industry. The latter undermining the economic base of Pittsburgh which may be recognized in the decayed urban fabric of lower class neighborhoods. East Liberty is one of many former urban centers fallen victim to the demise if inner city community at the rise of the suburb.
by Nathalie M. Westervelt.
M.Arch.

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Kerr, Jason Andrew. "Loving Liberty: Milton, Scripture, and Society." Thesis, Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2421.

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Thesis advisor: Dayton Haskin
Using methods drawn from literary analysis, theology, and political history, Loving Liberty explores the relationship between Milton's thinking about liberty and his practice of scriptural interpretation. It argues that Milton advances a model of a free society ultimately modeled on the charitable relations between the Father and the Son, who in his view differ essentially from one another. This model of liberated unity in difference derives from, and responds to, Milton's encounter with the Reformation ideal of each believer reading the Bible for him or herself, along with the social chaos that accompanied the resulting proliferation of interpretations. Using a complex concept of charity, Milton's writings imagine a society in which all are free to use scripture in highly individualized ways that nevertheless conduce to unity rather than chaos. In the end, the very interpretative practice through which Milton thinks his way toward this model also stands as its shining example, culminating in a rich body of writing that creatively re-imagines scripture and that invites its readers to use these new creations or not, as charity demands and in keeping with their own freely exercised gifts. In contrast to what he calls “obstinate literality” and “alphabetical servility&rdquo in The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, Milton's liberated interpretative method requires the interpreter to generate his or her own Bible, whether by radically reassembling the text (as Milton does in De Doctrina Christiana), by prophetically speaking the scripture written on one's heart (as Michael teaches Adam to do in Paradise Lost)
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2011
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English

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Chick, Daniel M. "The Liberty Counsel's : An Ideographic Analysis." TopSCHOLAR®, 2016. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1591.

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Ideology is a powerful means of persuasion in contemporary audience appeals. Through the means of ideographic and fragmentary analyses provided by Michael Calvin McGee (1980, 1990) and Saindon (2008), I examine the rhetorical appeals made by the Liberty Counsel, an evangelical Christian organization, which provides legal counsel for cases regarding “religious liberty.” Through an ideographic and fragmentary analysis, I conclude that the Counsel utilizes the ideograph as a superseding means of denoting its ideology. Further, I argue that is the ideograph that represents the ontological nature of the organization’s philosophy and serves as the guiding principle for many of the other ideographs that the organization employs. Further, the ideograph displays relative influence for the Liberty Counsel with and from other organizations, as illustrated when is compared to competing ideologies, such as that from the Southern Poverty Law Center. The importance of the ideograph is incumbent upon its utility in understanding a “snapshot” of the rhetorical situation. Rather than attempting to draft ideological archetypes, as the initial ideographic form attempted, this new ideographic form accepts the relativistic cultural influences and accounts for them synchronically.

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Hesse, Heidi. "Heidi Hesse's momentary sense of liberty." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1327600813.

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Kocsis, Michael. "Distributive justice, liberal freedom and equal liberty, an assessment of self-ownership and Nozick's libertarianism." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ52701.pdf.

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Cohen-Almagor, Raphael. "The boundaries of liberty and tolerance : liberal theory and the struggle against Kahanism in Israel." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e02067a0-ba42-428c-967a-1f3ba11c64bf.

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The problem of any political system is that the principles which underlie and characterize it might also, through their application, endanger it and bring about its destruction. Democracy is no exception. Moreover, because democracy is a relatively young phenomenon, it lacks experience in dealing with pitfalls involved in the working of the system. This is what I call the "catch" of democracy. The primary aims of this research are (1) to formulate percepts and mechanisms designed to prescribe boundaries to liberty and tolerance conducive to safeguard democracy; and (2) in the light of the theory to analyze a case of a democratic selfdefence. Hence, I employ the formulated philosophical principles to the study of the Israeli democracy, evaluating the political and legal measures to which it resorted in its struggle against Kahanism. In the first part of the thesis I examine two of the main arguments which are commonly offered as answers to the question: 'why tolerate?' The first is the 'Respect for Others Argument', and the second is the 'Argument from Truth'. I introduce some qualifications to these arguments, asserting that our primary obligation should be given to the first, and that in case of conflict between the two principles, this former principle should have preference over the latter. Through the review of the Millian theory and some more recent theories I try to prescribe confines to liberty. With regard to freedom of expression, I state two arguments: the first under the Harm Principle, and the second under the Offence Principle. Under the Harm Principle I argue that restrictions on liberty may be prescribed when there are sheer threats of immediate violence against some individuals or groups. Under the Offence Principle I explicate that expressions which intend to inflict psychological offence are morally on a par with physical harm and therefore there are grounds for abridging them. In this connection, I review the Illinois Supreme Court decision, which permitted the Nazis to hold a demonstration in Skokie. Moving from theory to practice, in the second part I apply the theory and the conclusions reached to the Israeli democracy, observing its struggle against the Kahanist phenomenon as it has been developed through the last two decades, and increasingly following the election of Meir Kahane to the Knesset in 1984. I examine the mechanisms applied in this anti-'Kach' (Kahane's party) campaign, the justifications given for the limitations that were set, and how justified they were, according to the formulated philosophical and legal guidelines.

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Kocsis, Michael (Michael Stephen) Carleton University Dissertation Philosophy. "Distributive justice, liberal freedom and equal liberty; an assessment of self-ownership and Nozick's libertarianism." Ottawa, 2000.

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Jagers, Sverker C. "Justice, liberty and bread : for all ? : on the compatibility between sustainable development and liberal democracy /." Göteborg : Göteborg University, 2002. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy042/2003502553.html.

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Blacketer, Raymond Andrew. "John Calvin's doctrine of Christian liberty and some implications for pastoral care." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Facincani, Lee. "“The Liberty of the Nation is in Jeopardy”: Views on the Battle of Liberty Place From Beyond Dixie." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1966.

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Alliet, Paul W. "James 1:25 and 2:12 the perfect law of liberty and the perfect liberty of the Christian /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.

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Butters, Craig Michael. "An exegetical-theological analysis of Paul's understanding of freedom." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1987. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p037-0007.

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Siebenmann, Alex. "The Jewish concept of freedom in John 8:33." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Michael-Johnston, Georgina. "Helen Maria Williams, liberty, sensibility, and education." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ34812.pdf.

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Krumm, Mitchell. "Madison, Henry, and the protection of liberty." Connect to resource, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/32213.

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Lester, Jan Clifford. "Rationality, welfare and liberty : a philosophical reconciliation." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1991. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1100/.

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This thesis attempts to amorally defend certain conceptions of rationality, welfare and liberty and to reconcile them in the sense of showing that they need not clash in practice. This is motivated by the social scientific work (particularly in economics) that indicates that liberty and welfare are best promoted by the free market. There is a cluster of reasons that this defence is needed: there is no clear account of liberty or what it entails; preference utilitarianism (as a theory of welfare) is often invalidly attacked, or misinterpreted in practice; some economist's conclusions that liberty and welfare do not diverge in the free market are often questioned because based on an instrumental rationality which is thought unrealistic or vacuous; the theories of liberty and welfare in this thesis also need the instrumental rationality assumption. Chapter 1: An Austrian economic interpretation of the instrumental rationality assumption of standard economics (that agents are self-interested utility-maximisers) can be defended as fruitful, compatible with moral values though implying none, and the fundamental tautology that standard economics presupposes. Chapter 2: The preference-utilitarian conception of welfare as achieving what is spontaneously desired (desired without the imposition of force or fraud), and maximising overall welfare, withstands criticism and is in practice compatible with the conceptions of liberty and rationality used in this thesis. In practice, preference utilitarianism entails side-constraint libertarianism, which the free market spontaneously provides. Chapter 3: The voluntarist conception of social liberty as the absence of costs imposed on people by people, and maximising overall liberty, withstands criticism and is in practice compatible with the conceptions of welfare and rationality used in this thesis. In practice, maximising voluntarist liberty entails side-constraint libertarianism, which the free market spontaneously provides. Coda: A criticism of the presuppositional dismissal of anarchy as a natural setting for liberty and pluralism.

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Barlow, Laura Jane. "P.B. Shelley and the progress of liberty." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.433790.

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Breidenbach, Michael David. "Conciliarism and American religious liberty, 1632-1835." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648152.

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Allen, John L. 1965, Cathleen Kaveny, J. Bryan Hehir, and Vincent D. 1963 Rougeau. "Is Religious Liberty Under Threat in America?:." The Church in the 21st Century Center at Boston College, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:102660.

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A panel of experts in theology and constitutional law examined threats to religious liberty in America at a campus forum moderated by Vatican expert and author John L. Allen, Jr. of National Catholic Reporter and sponsored by the Church in the 21st Century Center, BC Law School and the School of Theology and Ministry

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Chembeya, Edina Matamba. "Drivers of sustainability disclosure in liberty holdings." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/5579.

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This research assesses the drivers of sustainability disclosure in Liberty Holdings. The relevance of reporting on sustainability is growing for both listed and non-listed companies in South Africa. However, many companies many companies still coming to terms with reporting process, although others are doing exceptionally well. Liberty Holdings is one of the insurance organisations that has continuously improved their sustainability reporting and disclosure of their sustainability issues, in a sector that previously perceived such concerns as low on their agenda, due to the perception that they had a low impact on the sector. The research findings reveal that the process of sustainability disclosure in Liberty Holdings is driven by several elements that are strategically linked and are aligned to the core strategy of the organisation. The findings also indicate that in order to understand and implement viable sustainability processes, the processes must be embedded in a well-informed sustainability strategy that is aligned with this core strategy.

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Deutsch, McKenzie L. "Losing Liberty? The State of Jefferson Movement." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1371.

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In the context of California’s progressive political culture and growing economic inequality, a grassroots secessionist movement in rural northern California called the State of Jefferson movement arose in 2013. While the movement resembles other populist uprisings, its grievances are particular to its geographic, historical, and political context. Many tend to generalize populist campaigns as sinister or illiberal; however, this thesis finds that the State of Jefferson movement contains elements of populism as well as classical liberalism and republicanism. Through qualitative research, this thesis argues that movements of this sort are both inevitable in liberal democracy and also serve a legitimate purpose in strengthening democracy by calling for reform and good government. Growing political polarization, especially with the rise of Trump, and rural-urban cleavages in the United States beg for movements like the State of Jefferson to receive inquiry.

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Martin, Robin Lynn. "Recapturing moral freedom." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=69628.

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Kemp, Geoffrey Harold. "Ideas of liberty of the press, 1640-1700." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251776.

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Joyce, Parisa. "Lady Liberty intertextual performances of gender and nation /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1213635875.

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Stanley, Michelle Joelene. "Mary Wollstonecraft : forerunner of positive liberty and communitarianism." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44246.

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This thesis explores the extent to which Mary Wollstonecraft can be associated with the philosophical conversation about liberty, in which John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and John Stuart Mill are familiar names. Wollstonecraft was a woman whose appearance in this discourse was well-known during her lifetime; however, due to her unorthodox lifestyle and her gender, she was discredited after her death. My research corrects this omission by placing her within the canon as a philosopher of liberty. In particular, an analysis of her A Vindication of the Rights of Men, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution, and Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark in light of Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor’s work, reveals Wollstonecraft’s position as an early proponent of what comes to be called positive liberty and communitarianism. Positive liberty, loosely defined, is the idea that freedom requires more than the absence of restraint; there are certain actions that government and society need to take to ensure citizens’ freedom. Communitarianism, which proposes that true freedom may only be found in a certain form of society, is closely linked with ideas of positive liberty. Indeed, Wollstonecraft’s call for national public education and the restructuring of the property system, in conjunction with her recognition of the public and political nature of the ‘private’ family, is evidence that not only was she a proponent of positive liberty and communitarianism, but her philosophy was ahead of its time.

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Leander, L. H. "Liberty, democracy and legislation : law against the powerless." Thesis, Brunel University, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.292563.

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Liddel, Peter P. "Civic obligation and individual liberty in ancient Athens." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273327.

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Attas, Daniel. "Liberty, property, and markets : a critique of libertarianism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307459.

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Green, F. M. "Liberty, self-possession and carelessness in Montaigne's Essais." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.599646.

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This thesis explores the relationship between self-examination, self-regulation and human freedom in Montaigne’s Essais (c. 1571-1592). Montaigne’s text has overwhelmingly been characterized as the expression of a distinctively modern subjectivity, positing an authentic, individual self incommensurable with the artifices of language and social performance. To this interpretation I oppose a new reading centred on one of Montaigne’s deepest and most pressing preoccupations: the need to secure for himself a sphere of liberty and independence he can properly call his own, or himself. Chapter 1 focuses on the language Montaigne uses to articulate what we would now call ‘the self’: a rhetoric of inwardness urging us to look or withdraw into ourselves, and a rhetoric of self-possession calling for us to own or belong to ourselves. These expressions are shown to reflect patterns of discourse inherited from ancient texts, in particular Plutarch and Seneca. To belong to oneself, in Montaigne’s view, is not to be true to oneself, but to be one’s own man and master. Chapter 2 examines the role of these notions of freedom and self-ownership in Montaigne’s account of public engagement. Public life should be shunned because it removes us from ourselves – not in the sense that it exposes us to the distorting gaze of others, but because it turns us into slaves by rendering us dependent on the favour of others and encouraging us to live for the sake of that which lies beyond our powers. In Chapter 3, this robust language of independence is shown to intersect with a contrasting understanding of liberty as carelessness, a conception that unites idleness (oysiveté) with negligence (nonchalance). The thesis concludes by examining the consequences of this composite account of liberty for Montaigne’s understanding of self-discipline and its limits and for the status of the essai as a mode of writing that is peculiarly free.

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Grenfell, Michael. "Mill's 'very simple principle' : liberty, utilitarianism and socialism." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1991. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1172/.

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The thesis aims to examine the political consequences of applying J.S. Mill's "very simple principle" of liberty in practice: whether the result would be free-market liberalism or socialism, and to what extent a society governed in accordance with the principle would be free. 2 Contrary to Mill's claims for the principle, it fails to provide a clear or coherent answer to this "practical question". This is largely because of three essential ambiguities in Mill's formulation of the principle, examined in turn in the three chapters of the thesis. 3 First, Mill is ambivalent about whether liberty is to be promoted for its intrinsic value, or because it is instrumental to the achievement of other objectives, principally the utilitarian objective of "general welfare". The possibility that he might mean the latter implies that, because liberty and utilitarian objectives are at least potentially incompatible, application of the principle does not preclude the sacrifice of individual liberty in the pursuit of general welfare, and therefore does not preclude paternalistic (and illiberal) state socialism. 4 Arguments advanced by commentators, notably Gray, to suggest that there is no inconsistency between the liberal and utilitarian objectives in Mill's writing, are not sustainable. 5 Secondly, the principle's criterion for sanctioning interference in liberty - the prevention of "harm to others" - is so vague and elastic as to be compatible with almost any degree of interventionism and indeed totalitarianism. Because of the interdependence of men in society, there is virtually no limit to the classes of activity which can be said to cause harm to others, and hence no limits to the interference sanctioned by Mill's principle. Thus the principle does not preclude the suppression of legitimate economic activity by a socialist state committed to preventing economic "harm". 6 Attempts by commentators such as Rees and Ten to show that Mill's use of "harm" is narrower and more specific, are not supported by either textual or logical analysis. 7 Thirdly, Mill's principle fails to make clear whether "liberty" should be understood to mean classical ("negative") liberty or some form of "positive liberty" such as ability/power. It therefore does not preclude the adoption of socialist measures to promote "ability". On examination, "ability" can be seen to be an entirely different phenomenon from liberty. The promotion of "ability" (attainable through central allocation of material resources) can only be undertaken at the expense of liberty, particularly economic liberty. The justification for safeguarding economic liberty lies in respect for private property rights, the absence of which entails enslavement and inhumanity. 8 If a principle were to be framed avoiding these three ambiguities, it could serve as a firmer foundation for the protection and promotion of liberty.

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Pedro, Joana Rodrigues Camilo. "Gestão e suporte ao talento na Liberty Seguros." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/12533.

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Mestrado em Ciências Empresariais
O presente Trabalho Final de Mestrado incide no estudo dos processos de Recrutamento e Seleção e Formação e Desenvolvimento da Liberty Seguros, tendo por base a realização de um estágio curricular na Direção de Gestão e Suporte ao Talento. A Liberty Seguros foi pela quarta vez reconhecida com o galardão «Melhor Grande Empresa» para trabalhar em Portugal, nos Prémios 2014 - Excelência no Trabalho, comprovando o elevado nível da GRH da Companhia e tornando-a repetidamente numa referência nacional. Atentando as atividades desenvolvidas durante o estágio, propõe-se uma revisão de literatura assente num enquadramento teórico dos processos de Gestão de Recursos Humanos supramencionados, sendo analisados e discutidos os melhores métodos, técnicas e modelos inerentes a cada um. Após a identificação das práticas aplicadas pela Companhia em cada uma das áreas, estabelece-se então a ponte entre a revisão de literatura e a experiência de estágio, balanceando os pontos em comum e as conclusões divergentes. Dada a importância acrescida que o recrutamento eletrónico tem recebido, procura-se igualmente efetuar uma abordagem peculiar ao site institucional, investigando formas de aumentar a eficácia deste método de recrutamento que visam a dissuasão de candidaturas indesejadas e a atração dos candidatos com maior potencial. Por forma a compreender a direção do recrutamento eletrónico da Liberty Seguros face ao mercado, é ainda feita uma comparação entre os sites institucionais das seguradoras concorrentes.
The present Master's Degree Final Work, aims to describe the activities developed during a three months internship in "Liberty Seguros" Human Resources. Liberty Seguros was distinguished, for the fourth time, at the 2014 Awards - Excellence at Work, with the award "Best Large Company" to work in Portugal. This award recognizes the Companies' high HRM level, making Liberty Seguros a repeatedly national reference. The present report pretends to discuss and analyse the best practices in The Recruitment, Selection, Training and Development processes with the ultimate goal of matching it with the internship activities. After identifying the practices applied by the Company in each of these areas, it is established a bridge between the literature review and the internship experience, balancing the common points and the divergent conclusions. According to the increasing importance of E-recruitment, it is also analysed the effectiveness of institutional sites, focusing mainly on providing crucial information to avoid undesirable applications while attracting the greatest potential candidates. In order to understand the direction of Liberty Seguros' E-recruitment, a comparison is also made between the institutional sites of competing insurers.

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