Algernon Sidney and republican liberty

• Grant number: 12/24410-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: July 01, 2013
• End date: December 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Alberto Ribeiro Gonçalves de Barros
• Grantee: Alberto Ribeiro Gonçalves de Barros
• Host Investigator: Miles Taylor
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of London, England
• Associated research grant: 07/56080-1 - Rupture and continuity: research on the relations between nature and history since the great rationalism of the seventeenth Century, AP.TEM

Abstract

The research intends to analyze the republican conception of liberty in the political writings of Algernon Sidney and discuss whether this concept escapes the dichotomy asserted in liberal thought between negative liberty and positive liberty or whether it is just a variation of one of them. (AU)