Sentences with phrase «external coercion»

The free person is not only free of external coercion but also has the ability to control the direction of his or her life and to develop his or her potential.

Insofar as freedom can not be so defined, a proscription on external coercion requires a substantive principle or norm of social action.

However, men can not discharge these obligations in a manner in keeping with their own nature unless they enjoy immunity from external coercion as well as psychological freedom.

The absolute right of the individual, within the social organism, not to be deformed by external coercion but inwardly super-organized by persuasion, that is to say, in conformity with his personal endowments and aspirations.

Accordingly, its necessary conditions include equal freedom for all participants to advance and contest any claim and the arguments for it; the absence of internal coercion in the form of strategic activity or, stated positively, uncompromised commitment on the part of all participants to seek the truth; and the absence of external coercion that might influence the acceptance or contestation of claims (cf. Habermas, Theory 25; Habermas, Justification 31).

Democracies require a popularly elected government that is accountable to the electorate and free from external coercion, and all forms of contestation and participation must be equally accessible to all.

Each individual has a duty to develop his own personality, to be placed in circumstances as favorable as possible to his personal development and not to be deformed by external coercion but inwardly super-organized by persuasion, in conformity with his personal endowments and aspirations.

Religious individualism, then, leads to a purely secular society which can be held together only by external coercion.

Obviously, at that level of cognition no external coercion is required to get people to choose the best alternative.