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Liberty Flashcards

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Who drew up the Atlantic charter?

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President Rosevelt and PM Churchill during WW2 1939-45

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Chief proponent of negative liberty under the new liberal doctrine

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Robert Nozick and friedrick Hayek

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Who gave the principle called the harm principle

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JS mill.

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Everyone must have not just a vote but a voice , who said this

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Dworkin

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Limitations of freedom of expression in Indian constitution

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Article 19(2)
Article 359 suspension of freedom of speech during emergencies
IPC 153 , 259 A and 298

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Grounds on which freedom of expression is limited in Indian constitution

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Limited on grounds of sovereignty and integrity of India
The security of the state
Friendly relations with foreign states
Public order
Decency or morality
Contempt of court,
defamation or incitement to an offence

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Book- word that wound

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Richard Degalo

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Advocates of negative liberty

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  1. Adam smith
  2. Jeremy Bentham
  3. James mill
  4. Henry sidgwick
  5. Herpert spencer
  6. Hobbes
  7. John Locke
  8. Isaiah Berlin
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9
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Advocates of positive liberty

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TH green
LT Hobhouse
HJ Laski
Rouseau
Kant
Hegel

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Four foundational normative political values

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Justice, equality, rights and liberty

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11
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Who advocated the two concept of liberty

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Isaiah Berlin

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What is negative liberty according to isaiah Berlin?

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Negative liberty denotes absence of external, man-made interference, constraints on one’s thoughts and actions.
Negative liberty is core Thought of liberalism.

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What is positive liberty according to Isaiah Berlin

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Positive liberty denotes self mastery, self control, self directions to realisation, free capacity of the self to choose between good and bad according to Isaiah Berlin.
Gandhi, an idea of Swaraj is also closer to positive liberty

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Why did Berlin call positive liberty, a slippery slope?

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Because it may lead to majoritarian, authoritarian and totalitarian state
In modern times, who supports positive conception of liberty
Communitarian and socialist and
Communist thinkers support positive conception of liberty

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Define negative liberty

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It denotes freedom from constraints obstacle. It evolved during 16 century reformation movement in Europe. closely associated doctrine of liberalism, which emerge from the writings of Hobbes and Locke. In the 17th century, Europe infuse liberty as nature, right inviolable, it limits authority of state to interfere in the private affairs of individual.

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define positive liberty

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Positive liberty denotes freedom to do or achieve something. It makes one capable of achieving something.Positive liberty indicates both mental and physical capability to achieve something good worthy of achieving. it is value Judgemental. In this conception of liberty, the individual self is divided into higher and lower self. Higher self means rational, authentic or true virtuous self and lower self is irrational impulsive. Does unlike negative liberty, the constraints may be internal to the individual in positive conception of liberty.

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What is liberty according to
Rousseau

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Buy obeying laws emanating from the general will one is gaining freedom in positive sense

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What is liberty according to kant

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Kant held the view that by obeying laws flowing from the universal moral principles, one is gaining moral freedom

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According to Karl Marx, what is True freedom

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Political freedom in the arena of superstructure is neither possible Nor meaningful without freedom in the social production process that is the mode of production which he called the base of the society. In nutshell to Marx, Freedom is social production in the base will bring also political freedom in the superstructure

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How to achieve human emancipation by Karl Marx

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Human emancipation version can be achieved only by changing economic base mode of production. This can happen by having social production system in which each individual contributes freely as per his ability without any compulsion, Constrain, coercion and relate to fellow man is equal.
Such emancipatory, social production will have its own supporting superstructure, politics, law, art, culture, idea, which will further enhance human freedom

21
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It will be possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow to hunt in the morning. Fish in the afternoon ,rear cattle in the evening and Criticise after dinner doing just that which gives me pleasure without ever be coming in hunter fisherman shepherd or critic . This is this will be real state of freedom of man from alienation and exploitation.
Who said This

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Karl Marx

22
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Who gave a sound theory of taxation

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JS mill

23
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Book -Contemporary political thinkers

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BC Parekh

24
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Book - Social principles and the democratic state

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SI Ben &RS Peters

25
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Book -Problems of political philosophy

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DD Raphael

26
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Book-Constitution of liberty

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FA hayek

27
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Book - Development as freedom

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Amartya Sen

28
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Book - what’s wrong with negative liberty

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Charles Taylor

29
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Book -Four Essays on liberty

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Isaiah Berlin

30
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Book-Taking risks seriously

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Ronald Dworkin

31
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What did Immanuel Kant called universal moral principles

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Categorical imperatives

32
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Who pleaded for the limitation of inheritance rights and insisted on state provision of education

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JS Mill

33
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Book - Capitalism and freedom

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Milton Friedman

34
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origin of the word liberty

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Latin word liber meaning freedom

35
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Who said this-human consciousness, liberty, liberty needs right and rights needs the state

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TH green

36
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Other name of positive and negative

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Opportunity concept that is negative liberty
exercise concept that is positive liberty

37
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Communitarian tinkers

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Micheal Sandel
Micheal Walzer
Charles Taylor

38
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Libertarian thinkers

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Robert Nozick
Friedrich Hayek
Milton Friedman

39
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Main proponent of global justice

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Thomas pogge

40
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Book -access to advantage

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GA cohen

41
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Who conceptualised repressive state apparatus

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Louis Althusser

42
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What is positive liberty according to Gandhi?

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Positive liberty is freedom from want and freedom from fear

43
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What is Gerald Mc Callum’s triadiac concept

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Liberty as triadiac relation between Agent ,constraints and purpose that is X,Y,Z

44
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Book -Open Society and it’s enemy

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Karl popper , critic of Marx idea of liberty

45
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Supporters of freedom of speech

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JS mill
Socrates
Aristotle
Locke
Rousseau

46
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Which which amendment of American constitution granted most extensive, right to freedom of speech and expression

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First amendment

47
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What did the Nehru government in India do to curtail freedom of expression

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Inserted clause 2 in the article 19, which put reasonable restrictions on the right to freedom of expression

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