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(2015) The meaning of liberty beyond earth, Dordrecht, Springer.
The environments of space are lethal, mandating a variety of control and safety structures, some of which will be much more pervasive, and potentially intrusive, than on the Earth. Protecting, and even defining freedom , in these environments constitutes an important development in political philosophy. In this volume of essays, we discuss a set of ideas that range from the philosophical foundations to the policy implications of extraterrestrial liberty . The breadth of discussion is by no means exhaustive, but it does reveal the potential for a long and controversial discussion on freedom that is likely to follow humans into space and remain with them for as long as they attempt to settle the space frontier.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09567-7_1
Full citation:
Cockell, C. S. (2015)., Introduction: the meaning of liberty beyond the earth, in C. S. Cockell (ed.), The meaning of liberty beyond earth, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 1-9.