Privacy and Social Freedom
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy
- Author: Ferdinand David Schoeman
- Date Published: December 1992
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521415644
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This book attacks the assumption found in moral philosophy that social control as such is an intellectually and morally destructive force. It replaces this view with a richer and deeper perspective on the nature of social character aimed at showing how social freedom cannot mean immunity from social pressure. The author demonstrates how our competence as rational and social agents depends on a constructive adaptation of social control mechanisms. Our facility at achieving our goals is enhanced, rather than undermined, by social control. The author then articulates sources, contracts, and degrees of legitimate social control in different social and historical settings. Drawing on a wide range of material in moral and political philosophy, law, cognitive and social psychology, anthropology and literature, Professor Schoeman shows how the aim of moral philosophy ought to be to understand our social character, not to establish fortifications against it in the name of rationality and autonomy.
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- Date Published: December 1992
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521415644
- length: 240 pages
- dimensions: 237 x 157 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.48kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The meaning and scope of privacy
2. Mill's approach to social freedom
3. Articulated rationality and the Archimedean critique of culture
4. Social freedom from the perspective of cognitive and social psychology
5. The importance of cultural authority for morality
6. Explaining privacy's place
7. The ascent of privacy: a historical and conceptual account
8. Privacy and gossip
9. Privacy and spheres of life
10. Spheres of life: a literary exploration
Epilogue
Notes
Index.
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