Stuart T. Doyle

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A Defense Against Attacks on Negative Liberty

07/14/2021 Journal of Libertarian Studies Stuart T. Doyle

Negative liberty, which defines freedom exclusively in terms of independence of the individual from interference by others, is defended against contemporary philosophers Charles Taylor and Martha Nussbaum.

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