The Basic Academic Explainations Of Sen's Freedom View

Freedom is the permanence topic about which philosophers are concerned. This article is not to be the exhibition of freedom ideas, whereas it is going to choose Amartya Sen's ideas as resources to analyze. Amartya Sen has original eyes in freedom view and he do has different opinion from the traditional freethinking ways, so we can find a fire-new freedom view called"Sen's freedom view"from this article.Sen's freedom view is based on the reviewing and criticizing of utilitarianism, libertarianism and the priority of liberalism. It is a new theory of freedom because it has surveyed the old theory of human nature in liberalism. Sen's freedom view takes human nature as both initiative and welfare, and substantive freedom is its logic foundation. Substantive freedom is a integrate course where capability is its tenet, entitlements is its guarantee, and functionings are its results. In this way, Sen has colligated the value rationality and instrumental rationality, developed the useful and discard the useless of old freedom views, and constructed the operation formality of capability. Accordingly Sen got over the instrumentalism of economics and filled up the"ethics barnyard". More Sen advanced a new development view based on substantive freedom. It is said that freedom is the initial goal and important measures. Sen's freedom view and development view are a compactness whole one. The former is the conceptual element of the latter, and the latter is the historic course of the former. Sen's freedom view and development view have several same points with the idea of"human-oriented"of scientific development view, so it must have crucial academic meaning of recognizing the scientific development view deeply.In order to explain the idea, the introduction, conclusion and three chapters constitute this article. The first chapter sets up the foundation of Sen's freedom view. The second one describes the human nature, central concepts and expression forms of Sen's freedom, thereby it illuminates some categories. The third one reveal some same parties of Sen's freedom view and scientific development view and defines Sen's freedom view as a development view so it may have some useful information to out reform course. These three chapters bring out the special scenery of Sen's freedom view by in-depth logic chains.