Individual Liberty and the Importance of the Concept of the People

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Autor(a) principal: Queiroz, Regina
Data de Publicação: 2018
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/64670
Resumo: UID/FIL/00183/2013
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spelling Individual Liberty and the Importance of the Concept of the Peoplelibertyobediencethe people;privatepublicArts and Humanities(all)UID/FIL/00183/2013Through publically agreed laws that correspond to a common set of public restrictions, the ‘people as a sovereign body’ serves to protect against violations of individual liberty and despotic power. Where no such common body exists, individuals are deprived of this protection. In such cases, individuals must obey without liberty, while those in power command under a state of license. Neoliberal theorists maintain that any common personality, with its corresponding set of public and arbitrary positive and negative restrictions on liberty, undermines individual liberty. Neoliberal theory only allows for private restrictions on liberty. Against these neoliberal assumptions, we argue that rejecting public restrictions on liberty does not promote individual liberty. To the 1᢫ ᢬ ᢭ ᢮ 1 contrary, it creates conditions in which free individuals become servile and political inequality becomes entrenched, where citizens are divided into those who obey and those who command. Tracing the consequences of neoliberalism, we argue that unless we take seriously both the people as a political category and the right to equal and reciprocal coercion, individual liberty will be at risk. We also argue that neoliberalism ultimately leads to the total exclusion of certain citizens under the veil of full liberty. With the vanishing of the people’s will comes the utter disappearance of certain citizens, who live in the spontaneous society as if they were stateless or lawless persons. To better understand the connections between the rejection of the concept of the people, private restrictions on liberty and the fostering of the servile citizen, this paper considers the political philosophy of Hayek and Nozick. It also considers key ideas from Locke and Kant—theorists who, despite the differences between their philosophical perspectives, and despite the fact that they both provided crucial inspiration for Hayek’s political economy and Nozick’s libertarianism, stressed the protective role of the people with regard to individual liberty.Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA)RUNQueiroz, Regina2019-03-26T23:22:03Z2018-08-142018-08-14T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article42application/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/64670eng2055-1045PURE: 12347907https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-018-0151-3info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-03-11T04:30:39Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/64670Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T03:34:09.582502Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title Individual Liberty and the Importance of the Concept of the People
spellingShingle Individual Liberty and the Importance of the Concept of the People
Queiroz, Regina
liberty
obedience
the people;
private
public
Arts and Humanities(all)
title_short Individual Liberty and the Importance of the Concept of the People
title_full Individual Liberty and the Importance of the Concept of the People
title_fullStr Individual Liberty and the Importance of the Concept of the People
title_full_unstemmed Individual Liberty and the Importance of the Concept of the People
title_sort Individual Liberty and the Importance of the Concept of the People
author Queiroz, Regina
author_facet Queiroz, Regina
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA)
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Queiroz, Regina
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv liberty
obedience
the people;
private
public
Arts and Humanities(all)
topic liberty
obedience
the people;
private
public
Arts and Humanities(all)
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