choice has value only where there are choice-worthy options
Posted by Gordon on July 14, 2009
Autonomous choice has value, however, only in an environment that is rich in choice worthy options. John Gray Enlightenment’s Wake p 12 summarising argument of Joseph Raz’s Morality and Freedom.
And more: from Berlin: incommensurabilities among ultimate values set a limit to the ambitions of theory in both ethics and politics. .. political life as being permanently intractable to rational reconstruction.
Idea then: forms of communal action under different types of states/ traditions. eActivism as an archetypal instance of liberal rights based ‘communal’ activism? vs types of activism in China and other authoritarian states vs secessionist activism?
