Privacy and social freedom / Ferdinand David Schoeman.
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...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1992.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in philosophy and public policy.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.