Author(s)
Denning, Frederik ElkjærJørgensen, Mark Vester
Martensen-Larsen, Preben Anders
Zaar, Amalie Østergaard
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Poulsen, JørgenKeywords
ForebyggelseskommissionenPolitisk filosofi
Sundhed
Statsintervention
John Stuart Mill
Rawls
Ken I. Kersch
W. Kip Viscusi
Benjamin Sachs
Lene Otto
Harm Principle
The Liberty Principle and Universal Health Care
Progressiv liberalisme
Smoking, Progressive Liberalism and the Law
On Liberty
Two Concepts of Liberty
Isaiah Berlin
Frihed
Begrebsanalyse af frihed
statsteori
statsfilosofi
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http://hdl.handle.net/1800/4185Abstract
This report takes the matter of a state’s intervention towards its individuals into dis-cussion from the perspective of social health care, and the recent changes in law, concerning smoking, and taxes on fat. The government in Denmark has been accused of being paternalistic and of interacting too much in the citizen’s personal life. By including John Stuart Mill, recent investigations, the public discussion and a list of modern ethical magazine articles, we set up a discussion about, under which pre-mises, and why a state should be allowed to adjust the behaviour of its citizens. The answer to this question is not clear, at it fairly early in the process became clear that the arguments is based, not only on a matter of principal opinion, but also on, in which way the agitator views upon freedom. We, as I. Berlin, divide freedom into two categories: Positive and negative freedom. The project concludes that if arguing from a point of view that understands freedom in the positive (or total) sense, it is not possible to create valid arguments for interfering with an individual’s behaviour, as long as it does not affect the life of other individuals. However, understanding free-dom in the positive way will make it possible to interject, when people are living an unhealthy life. The report also concludes that living in a modern democracy, with an understanding of the freedom as an unbendable (and positive) size, is impossible.Date
2009-06-18Type
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oai:rudar.ruc.dk:1800/4185http://hdl.handle.net/1800/4185