What does freedom really look like?
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Absolute freedom of the individual? Or a chaotic dystopia? Anarchy is one of the most controversial political ideals. Join outspoken theorist Sophie Scott-Brown as she sets out her vision of anarchy for all.
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Sophie Scott-Brown is the former Principal of Gresham College and Fellow of the University of St Andrews. An inspiring intellectual historian with research interests in modern European political thought, anarchism and the history of education, Sophie is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Royal History Society.
She is an author with a passion for historical biography as a means of understanding ideas. His work includes The Stories of Raphael Samuel: A Portrait of a Popular Historian and Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy.
00:00 Introduction
00:23 Everyday anarchism
00:53 Objections to anarchism
05:44 Positive vs negative freedom
08:43 The social individual
11:08 A social story of freedom
12:58 What anarchism is not
13:36 What is anarchism
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