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摘要

 本篇論文意圖探討「經濟自由與政治自由何者是更為基礎的自由？」。而在論文撰寫的過程中，筆者發現此兩者的競逐，可以放在「經濟全球化」、「鄂蘭的政治自由觀」、「人權」的架構下來檢視。在這三者的來回衝盪中，我們實際上面臨的是「從經濟自由延伸到政治自由」、「從政治自由延伸到經濟自由」的複雜變體。鄂蘭對政治自由的闡述，嚴厲抨擊了前者對人類自由造成的危害，但她在自由概念下對經濟事務的嚴格限縮，又容易對自由概念的運用造成不必要的限制（從近代人權的發展來看更是如此）。要讓自由概念的內涵（特別是它在政治事務上所能展現的規範性）更切合人類在自由之名下所作的努力，我們有必要重新抓回政治自由的意涵，並審慎面對經濟事務在自由概念中的地位。

關鍵字：漢娜•鄂蘭、Amartya Sen、政治自由、經濟自由、Natality、權力、權威

Abstract

This thesis is concerned with the meaning of economic freedom and political freedom, and about which one is more fundamental. When I was trying to answer to the question, I realized that it is very helpful to view their competing relationship under the perspectives of economic globalization and Arendt’s conception of political freedom and human right. In fact, what had been confronted is a complex interaction between economic freedom and political freedom. Arendt criticized the former through her account on political freedom. But Arendt’s conception of freedom tends to introduce unnecessary limitation on the application of the concept. If our understanding of freedom is what human beings pursue, we have to focus on the political implication of freedom itself and notice that without the political freedom, it is not possible to create an open space for economic freedom.