Concepts of liberty and value pluralism: Implications for psychiatry

Isaiah Berlin’s distinction between the ideas of ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ liberty is examined within the context of his value pluralism, in which goods, evils and forms of life are ultimately incommensurable (or incomparable through reasoning). Adopting this pluralist stance as to values, I try to...

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Main Author: Claudio E. M. Banzato
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Universitária de Pesquisa em Psicopatologia Fundamental 2016-03-01
Series:Revista Latinoamericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47142016000100016&lng=en&tlng=en