Background
Crocker, John Lawrence was born on February 13, 1944 in Aurora, Illinois, United States. Son of Donald Rosevear and Geraldine Crocker.
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Liberty is perhaps the most praised of all social ideals. Rare is the modern political movement which has not inscribed "liberty," "freedom," "liber ation," or "emancipation" prominently on its banners. Rarer still is the political leader who has spoken out against liberty, though, of course, some have condemned "license. " While there is overwhelming agreement on the value of liberty, however, there is a great deal of disagreement on what liberty is. It is this fact that explains how it is possible for the most violently opposed of political parties to pay homage to the "same" ideal. From among the many ways liberty is understood, this essay will be concerned with only two. The first takes liberty to be the absence of human interference with the individual's actions. This is the way liberty has been understood by the Anglo-American "liberal" tradition from Thomas Hobbes in the seventeenth century to l. S. Mill in the nineteenth to such contemporary, and very dissimilar, political philosophers as John Rawls and Robert Nozick. The "absence of interference" school is far from monolithic in its understanding of liberty, but it is united in its opposition to a rival account on which liberty is not taken to be the absence of human interference but rather the presence of diverse pos sibilities or opportunities.
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What is liberty, exactly? Are there different kinds of liberty — negative and positive, for example? If so, how do these kinds of liberty relate to one another? Or are such distinctions founded on a mistake? Is there one true conception of liberty or freedom? Or do the meanings of these terms proliferate and evolve over time? What's at stake in the way we talk about liberty and freedom? Could confusion about the correct analysis of the concept of liberty threaten our freedom in the real world? Could a better appreciation of the complexity of the conceptual landscape help us better understand what it means to be free? This month in Cato Unbound we take on these big questions. Philosophers David Schmidtz and Jason Brennan, authors of the recently released book A Brief History of Liberty, will try to show us the way through the thicket. And we've got a stellar line-up of philosophers at hand to tell us if they've lead us into the clear. They are: Tom G. Palmer of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation and the Cato Institute, Penn State's John Christman, and Philip Pettit of Princeton. Each, we shall see, is an articulate proponent of slightly different conceptions of liberty.
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Crocker, John Lawrence was born on February 13, 1944 in Aurora, Illinois, United States. Son of Donald Rosevear and Geraldine Crocker.
AB, Yale University, 1966. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1970.
Juris Doctor, Duke University, 1980.
Law clerk, United States Court Appeals (9th circuit), San Diego, 1980-1981; associate, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, 1981-1983; associate, Perkins, Coie, Seattle, 1983-1986; assistant district attorney, New York County District Attorney, New York City, 1986-1989; associate professor of law, New York University School Law, New York City, since 1989.
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Married Nancy Ann Kraemer, August 13, 1983. Children: Alison, Mark, Stephanie.