Amartya Sen’s View Of Freedom

Amartya Sen is a famous contemporary economist and winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics.This article mainly discusses his concept of freedom in detail.The discussion of freedom has always been an enduring topic.Many famous scholars have talked about freedom,and Amartya Sen ’s view of freedom is based on the perspective of feasible capabilities.What can be done and what can be achieved can be achieved through the expansion of personal viability to achieve a variety of different lifestyles.He also associates freedom and preference.People can conduct self-censorship,and a series of basic judgments that are almost impossible to prove,such as minimum freedom,to express the understanding of freedom,and ultimately define substantive freedom as “enjoying people’s reason to cherish The viability of that kind of life." Amartya Sen further paid attention to the relationship between freedom and development,and proposed that freedom is the primary purpose and important means of development.He also believes that development is the process of expanding freedom,and ultimately the concept of freedom and development have been unified.This article is divided into three parts:The first part: the origin of the ideas of Amartya Sen’s freedom.Through analyzing Aristotle’s basic "good" ideas,Adam Smith’s economic ethics thoughts,and Marx’s thoughts on all-round development,this paper analyzes the influence of these thoughts on Amartya Sen’s concept of freedom and compares them.Explore the special features of the latter,and then clarify the basic connotations of Amartya Sen’s concept of freedom.Part Ⅱ: The content of Amartya Sen’s free thought.First of all,Amartya Sen defined physical freedom as a viable ability for people to enjoy the kind of life that they cherished,and fully analyzed and discussed substantive freedom from evaluation and effectiveness.Secondly,Amartya Sen ’s theoretical perspective of substantivefreedom is a viable ability method.The cornerstone of the construction of the concept of substantive freedom is the level of freedom and the level of freedom.The feasible ability is Amartya Sen’s unique understanding of freedom.His substantive freedom is the realization of a series of basic viable capabilities.Such freedom not only involves the “opportunity” enjoyed by individuals,but also involves the “process” of individual choice..Again,Amartya Sen examined five types of instrumental freedom and conducted series of explorations to clarify the content of free tools.In the end,Amartya Sen analyzed the lack of freedom and finally clarified various specific forms of non-liberation.The third part: the dimension of freedom of Amartya Sen’s development concept.Amartya Sen ’ s concept of development is based on the development concept of freedom.He believes that freedom is the primary purpose of development,and it is also an important means of development.The process of development can be seen as an expansion process of freedom.It is a comprehensive expansion of viable capabilities.Based on this,Amartya Sen criticized the narrow concept of development,thus establishing a comprehensive concept of development.