Read Jeremy Waldron “Homelessness and the issue of freedom”, from Liberal Rights: Collected Papers (1981-1991) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp.309-338. (File attached)
Write an essay that answers the following three questions:
What particular idea/concept of freedom does Waldron deploy in this paper? Carefully explain it.
How does Waldron link this idea/concept of freedom to the rules of private and common property to criticize our treatment of homeless people? Why does Waldron think that those rules render the homeless comprehensively unfree?
Do you agree or disagree with Waldron’s conclusion that a society genuinely committed to the freedom of its citizens ought to worry as much about homelessness as it should about “torture, the suppression of dissent, and other violations of human rights” (p.309)? Why? Why not? Explain and defend your reasoning. Homelessness and the Issue of Freedom Paper.