Search Articles
Dataset Informations
Download01/Apr/2016
Reading Freedom from the Theme of Oppression
Maria Ligia Ganacim Granado Rodrigues Elias
DOI: 10.1590/1981-38212016000200001
This paper explores a theoretical and political approach to discuss the idea (and ideal) of freedom. This approach is built through a dialogue between different theoretical views, especially Isaiah Berlin’s concept of freedom as non-interference, Philip Pettit’s idea of freedom as non-domination, and Nancy Hirschmann’s constructivist freedom. It sustains that the idea of ‘non-oppression’ is a useful approach to consider freedom in its complexity. Reading freedom from the ‘key’ of oppression allows us to think of not only ‘spaces’ of […]
Keywords: choice; feminism; Freedom; liberalism; republicanism