from Latinlibertatem(nominativelibertas) "civil or political freedom, condition of a free man; absence of restraint; permission," fromliber"free" (seeliberal(adj.)). At first of persons; of communities, "state of being free from arbitrary, despotic, or autocratic rule or control" is by late...
The libertarian view of human rights is basically “don’t hit people and don’t take their stuff.” Sort of a simplified version of the non-aggression principle about not initiating force against others. This is sometimes called “negative liberty.” The freedom to be left alone. Our frien...
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andare introductory works on liberty.is somewhat dated, but it provides a good overview of the different conceptions of liberty.concentrates on the theories of freedom of six contemporary liberal thinkers, together with the more general theories ofand(both cited under). Many shorter introductory piec...
Here’s a chart from the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World. As you can see, there was some improvement in economic policy after the collapse of communism, but Russia has never come close to having even French levels of economic liberty. And France is not exactly a pro-...
From the moment in which each human being is an autonomous individual, the legitimate exercise of power in relation to the population does not consist in giving specific orders to subjects but in administering a set of procedures whose specific purpose is to serve as a means for different indivi...
“Article 37: Freedom of the person of citizens of the People’s Republic of China is inviolable. No citizens may be arrested (daibu 逮捕), except with the approval (pizhun 批准) or by decision (jueding 决定) of a People’s Procuratorate or by decision of a People’s Court, and arres...
Much of the force of his argument, I think, is still now a sense, in that sense of intellectual freedom. He was explicit that On Liberty is not about political freedom. We tend today to still use it in that way, so the argument will be about should the government ban gambling. ...
【希言子按:“But what he has created is very antithesis of political freedom”中的“he”指代的是上句的“tyrant(or‘hidden persuader’)”而非Epictetus,“what he has created”是指“the form of life he has invented for them”而非Epictetus所創造出來的哲學。】 禁欲式的克己苦修,或许是正直、宁静...
Our first founding document declares the liberty of "Free and IndependentStates" (emphasis added), but such freedom serves mainly as a condition ofindividualliberty. The inalienable right to liberty specified in the Declaration of Independence is the right not of the states, but of the individual...