the plot is sickening and animals are running out of space. |
Unfreedom is not only normal, it is systemic..In this way unfreedom is what Judith Shklar might call a “primary experience.” But because it is right in front of us, we have a tendency to direct our gaze towards a goal about which we know much less – “freedom” or “justice” – and to take the negative state simply as the absence of that less known and theoretically contested positive state. Instead, as Shklar argues, we ought to theorise the negative state itself, to begin from unfreedom, injustice, imperfection. Starting from unfreedom is a kind of non-ideal theory, theory that takes as its starting point the non-ideal.
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