14: Freedom and paternalism

10/11/2019 10 min Episodio 14

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Episode Synopsis

Blackburn discusses the term freedom and its large role within the rhetorical political demand. He goes to mention Plato’s understanding of the term freedom. He also discusses freedom in terms of feminist philosophers among other philosophers perception of the term.Blackburn equates the term elitism him with the term paternalism to describe how self-interest is enveloped within certain systematic democracies.