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- 9782381117904
- Éditeur
- Human and Literature Publishing
- Date de publication
- 26/10/2023
- Langue
- anglais
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Aide EAN13 : 9782381117904
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What is Liberty or Freedom? Who is free? The Civilized Man, the Savage, or the
Millionaire?...
It might seem that liberty was one of the most trite and worn of all subjects.
It will be the aim of this essay to show that liberty is the least well
analyzed of all the important social conceptions, that it is the thing at
stake in the most important current controversies, and that it needs to be
defended as much against those who abuse it as against those who deride it.
The history of the dogma of the natural liberty of all men, with the cognate
dogma of the natural equality of all men, would be an important topic for
exhaustive treatment by itself. From the notes which I have made on the
subject I condense as far as possible the following view of it.
Slavery in the classical states seems to have rested upon the law of war, that
the vanquished man with his family and all his property fell under the good
pleasure of the conqueror. Xenophon states this law explicitly: "The law is
well known among all men that, when a state goes to war, the property and
bodies of all in the state are the property of the captors. You will,
therefore, not possess wrongfully whatever you get, but, if you permit them to
retain anything, it will be out of humanity."
Millionaire?...
It might seem that liberty was one of the most trite and worn of all subjects.
It will be the aim of this essay to show that liberty is the least well
analyzed of all the important social conceptions, that it is the thing at
stake in the most important current controversies, and that it needs to be
defended as much against those who abuse it as against those who deride it.
The history of the dogma of the natural liberty of all men, with the cognate
dogma of the natural equality of all men, would be an important topic for
exhaustive treatment by itself. From the notes which I have made on the
subject I condense as far as possible the following view of it.
Slavery in the classical states seems to have rested upon the law of war, that
the vanquished man with his family and all his property fell under the good
pleasure of the conqueror. Xenophon states this law explicitly: "The law is
well known among all men that, when a state goes to war, the property and
bodies of all in the state are the property of the captors. You will,
therefore, not possess wrongfully whatever you get, but, if you permit them to
retain anything, it will be out of humanity."
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