Dimensions of nomic freedom

Amedeo G. Conte

G. Conte

pp. 69-78

in: Ian Carter, Mario Ricciardi (eds), Freedom, power and political morality, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001

Abstract

The title of this paper, "Dimensions of Nomic Freedom", is a variation on the title of Felix E. Oppenheim's fundamental contribution to eleutheriology, Dimensions of Freedom. I shall deal, more specifically, with nomic freedom, that is, freedom in relation to nomoi, to rules, as opposed to the kind of freedom dealt with by Oppenheim (which we might call non-nomic or, simply, ontic freedom).