Prawa człowieka jako warunek możliwości wolności moralnej. Próba ontologicznej analizy wolności politycznej
Human rights as prerequisites of moral freedom. An ontological analysis of political freedom

Summary/Abstract: The paper is an attempt at ontological analysis of the notion of political freedom taking account of studies and perceptions of moral and political, negative and positive liberties in the history of philosophy. Reference is made in particular to Isaiah Berlin’s distinction between positive and negative political freedom, Hannah Arendt’s historical analysis of the differentiations between the notion of political liberty and free will (moral freedom), and Nicolai Hartmann's criticism of Kant’s perception of liberty as positive freedom and his analyses of moral freedom seen as a phenomenon of man’s spiritual life. On the ground of these analyses the author substantiates the thesis that first generation human rights constitute the basic prerequisites of man’s moral freedom.

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