The debate of contemporary political theory on “freedom” and a sketch of sociological criticism

• Autor(a) principal: Voigt, Lucas
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Lago, Jean Matheo Piccini
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Em Tese (Florianópolis)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/emtese/article/view/1806-5023.2019v16n2p83

The article aims at mapping the contemporary debate on the problem of freedom in political theory and, in a related way, presenting a sketch of sociological critique to the discussion. In the first part of the text, the three main concepts of freedom in political theory are presented: freedom as non-interference, freedom as self-realization and freedom as nondomination. In the second part, some of the theoretical grounds underlying the debate on freedom are presented, confronting the main formulations of three traditions of the contemporary theoretical-political debate: liberalism, communitarianism and republicanism. In the third and final part, we proceed to the elaboration of a sketch of sociological critique of conceptions about freedom in political theory. The article proposes the demarcation of a fundamental distinction between the two disciplines with regard to the problem of freedom, taking into account two aspects: the theoretical and epistemological constitution of the two disciplinary fields (moral philosophy vs. objective science) and the object for reference in the analysis of the restrictions of freedom (State vs. society).