Freedom, Coercion and Ability

Dowding, Keith; van Hees, Martin

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Freedom, Coercion and Ability

Date

2008

Authors

Dowding, Keith

van Hees, Martin

Publisher

Springer

Abstract

In his methodological comments about the study of ethics and politics, Aristotle famously remarked that one should not demand more precision from the study of a subject than that subject allows.1 He has sometimes been interpreted as suggesting that analyt