Böcker av David Schmidtz

The Oxford Handbook of Freedom presents the first wide-ranging analysis of freedom in all its dimensions: legal, cultural, religious, economic, political, and psychological. It includes 28 new essays by well-regarded philosophers, historians, and political theorists.

David Schmidtz disputes the idea that rigorous reflection on how to live needs to begin with timeless axioms, rather than with more ephemeral circumstances of time and place. Rather, he argues that theorizing about how to live together should take its cue from contemporary moral philosophy's attempts to go beyond formal theory, and should ask which principles have a history of demonstrably being organizing principles of actual thriving communities at their best.

The authors discuss the connections between the ethical, economic, and entrepreneurial dimensions of a life well-lived.

Through a fusion of philosophical, social scientific, and historical methods, A Brief History of Liberty provides a comprehensive, philosophically-informed portrait of the elusive nature of one of our most cherished ideals.