O’Neill martin.oneill[@]york.ac.uk Lecture 2: Positive and Negative Liberty 1. William E. Connolly: Liberty as an ‘Essentially-Contested Concept’ • See Connolly‚ The Terms of Political Discourse (1983)‚ and the relevant excerpt in CKS (i.e. Freedom: A Philosophical Anthology‚ ed. Ian Carter‚ Matthew Kramer and Hillel Steiner (Blackwell‚ 2007).) • The idea of an “essentially contested concept” – a concept that cannot be specified in detail in advance of normative debates. • The meanings of terms
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Michelle Marano Mr. Weir ENG3U1 May 30th‚ 2012 The importance of Freedoms Freedom is a very important aspect of a society‚ without freedom people live in fear and insecurity. Benjamin Franklin once said “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve nether and lose both” (Franklin). Throughout history one can see how much control the governments have had over their
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World’s Reliance on Computers By; Kevin Roach Jr. April 26th 2011 Computers are used in many different ways; they are used in all sorts of different fields of work and are very important to many different people. Practically anything that you use is made by computers. Today’s modern vehicles and airplanes were are designed on a computer. Our country’s traffic signals are run by a network of computers. In a hospital‚ most lifesaving machines are run by computers. Space exploration would not
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IN MY opinion‚ our teenagers nowadays are enjoying too much freedom compared to those before. Freedom helps teens feel more powerful and self-confident. But too much freedom can easily backfire‚ leaving a teen floundering. Some of them start taking advantage of too much freedom. Although teenagers might be reluctant to admit it‚ they still need the stability that parental authority can offer. Some parents remain so busy with their work that they forget their responsibilities towards their children
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Question: Freedom and lack of Freedom existed side by side in English colonies. Using examples from Pennsylvania and elsewhere demonstrate how greater freedom for some colonists meant less freedom for others. 300 to 600 words Freedom and lack of freedom co-existed in seventeenth century America because of English rule domination over Dutch rule in the colony of New York and the lack of English rule in the Pennsylvania colony. Once English rule spread to New York‚ it expanded the freedom of some New
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RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is an Indian conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mumbai‚ Maharashtra‚ India. Reliance owns businesses across India engaged in energy‚ petrochemicals‚ textiles‚ natural resources‚ retail‚ and telecommunications. Reliance is the third most profitable company in India‚ the second-largest publicly traded company in India by market capitalization‚ and the second largest company in India as measured by revenue after the government-controlled
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Freedom? Or Restriction? Mr. Musselman Cheongna Dalton School Class Section A Hyun Jun Han Theoretical Psychology Experiment Title: Freedom? Or Restriction? Name: Hyunjun Han Institutional Affiliation: Cheongna Dalton School Class section: A Introduction For long there has been a surplus of controversy regarding the human race’s choice between freedom and restriction. Do people excel in a environment where they are restricted‚ or do they excel when they are completely free?
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cards led to the first successful semi-automated computer‚ a punch-card tabulating machine invented during the 1880s by American Herman Hollerith. It was used to tabulate the results of the U.S. census. Each punch card contained the data of each individual. Operators fed the countless cards into the computer. When the spring-mounted nails of the computer passed through the holes of the punch-card‚ an electric circuit was completed. As seen in diagram C‚ the results of each card were displayed on
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and pension systems with hardly any old age income security A well-developed and evolved insurance sector is needed for economic development as it provides long term funds for infrastructure development and strengthens the risk taking ability of individuals. It is estimated that over the next ten years India would require investments of the order of one trillion US dollars. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE The history of life insurance in India dates back to 1818 when it was conceived as a means to provide
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A Short Essay on Freedom What exactly is freedom? Can you taste it‚ see it‚ reach out and touch it? The answer to these questions is no. However‚ if reflected upon‚ freedom can certainly be felt‚ not by the hands but by the emotion called feeling. Since all we can do is describe properties of freedom‚ the question remains how freedom is explainable with words. Youth are not burdened by restrictions placed upon adults; therefore‚ a simpler idea of being able to
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