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Ваша оценкаStudents of political theory will welcome the return to print of this brilliant defense of ordered liberty. Impugning John Stuart Mill’s famous treatise, On Liberty, Stephen criticized Mill for turning abstract doctrines of the French Revolution into “the creed of a religion.”
Only the constraints of morality and law make liberty possible, warned Stephen, and attempts to impose unlimited freedom, material equality, and an indiscriminate love of humanity will lead inevitably to coercion and tyra...
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- Makarono21 марта 2022 г.
"To try to make men equal by altering social arrangement is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack"
0156 - Makarono31 августа 2021 г.
"To me this question whether liberty is a good or a bad thing appears as irrational as the question whether fire is a good or a bad thing. It is both good and bad according to time, place, and circumstance, and a complete answer to the question, In what cases is liberty good and in what cases is it bad? would involve not merely a universal history of mankind, but a complete solution of the problems which such a history would offer"
056 - Makarono21 августа 2021 г.
"Originality consists in thinking for yourself, not in thinking differently from other people"
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