Paper's abstract

Patrick Pharo, Pluralism and Moral Liberalism. The Case of Agreed Dependences
The contemporary discussion about pluralism is mainly focused on the oppo-sition between two kinds of liberty: negative liberty, as absence of external constraint, and positive liberty as self-accomplishment. This paper propounds an intermediary meaning of liberty, which is also more commonplace: the appreciative liberty, which concerns the possibility for everyone to act towards one’s best aims in non-ideal psychological and social conditions. The paper describes several sorts of moral and politic pluralism and emphasizes the example of agreed dependences upon communities, sexual partners or addic-tive substances, in order to develop a “meta-liberal” perspective, promoting a public contribution to individual autonomy, which would be respectful of all the appreciative liberties.

Key Words : freedom, dependence, autonomy
t. 49 : 2005, p. 199-212

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