LIBERALISM – FREEDOM VERSUS RESPONSIBILITY

Environmental Violence, Liberalism, and Responsibility

Individual freedom versus collective responsibility: an economic epidemiology perspective

Individuals' free choices in vaccination do not guarantee social optimum since individuals' decision is based on imperfect information, and vaccination decision involves positive externality. Public policy of compulsory vaccination or subsidised vaccination aims to increase aggregate private demand closer to social optimum. However, there is controversy over the effectiveness of public interven...

Individual freedom versus collective responsibility: an ethicist's perspective

Philosophical theories of collective action have produced a number of alternative accounts of the rationality and morality of self-interest and altruism. These have obvious applications to communicable disease control, the avoidance of antibiotic resistance, the responsibility of healthcare professionals to patients with serious communicable diseases, and the sharing of personal data in epidemi...

1 Liberalism , Desert and Responsibility A Response to

In recent years, a number of critics of liberalism have focused on its supposed dependence on a voluntaristic and impoverished conception of the self and its inability in consequence to recognise and do justice to those moral phenomena – ideas regarding allegiance, desert and responsibility in particular – that are connected to the situatedness of embodied selves. Samuel Scheffler’s strategy in...

Individual freedom versus collective responsibility: too many rights make a wrong?

: Individuals might reasonably expect the freedom to make their own decisions regarding their health. However, what happens when an individual's wishes conflict with what is in that individual's best interests? How far should an individual's rights be restricted for his or her own benefit? Similarly, what limitations should be placed on an individual's behaviour when that person's wishes go aga...