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Full Idea
It is unclear whether the idea of promoting freedom is even a coherent political project. Some freedoms limit others. The freedom of rich people to make large donations to political campaigns can limit the equal worth of the right to vote.
Gist of Idea
Political freedom is an incoherent project, because some freedoms limit other freedoms
Source
Martha Nussbaum (Creating Capabilities [2011], 4)
Book Ref
Nussbaum,Martha C.: 'Creating Capabilities' [Belknap Harvard 2013], p.71
A Reaction
It is not just American right-wingers who over-emphasise 'freedom'. French philosophy seems to be riddled with the same thing.
| 20092 | One principle of liberty is to take turns ruling and being ruled [Aristotle] |
| 19924 | The freest state is a rational one, where people can submit themselves to reason [Spinoza] |
| 19871 | Freedom is not absence of laws, but living under laws arrived at by consent [Locke] |
| 5621 | The existence of reason depends on the freedom of citizens to agree, doubt and veto ideas [Kant] |
| 22085 | Freedom requires us to submit to a family, or a corporation, or a state [Hegel, by Houlgate] |
| 23818 | We have liberty in the space between nature and accepted authority [Weil] |
| 21017 | Political freedom is an incoherent project, because some freedoms limit other freedoms [Nussbaum] |
| 18661 | Ancient freedom was free participation in politics, not private independence of life [Kymlicka] |