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5 hours ago · Nelson Mandela concurs, “To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”. Martin Luther King, Jr, echoes, “A ...
2 days ago · I also examine Douglass’ famous speech and analyze how he thought about freedom, unfreedom, and how those whose independence was restrained should view Independence Day. We take his speech, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July” as our primary text for exploring the tension between liberty and bondage in U.S. history.
3 days ago · Joseph Stiglitz and the Limits of Liberal Freedom. The economist Joseph Stiglitz has long criticized neoliberalism without embracing nationalism or chauvinism. His latest, The Road to Freedom, reclaims the concept for progressive forces but fails to adequately examine unfreedom in the workplace.
2 days ago · This is nothing more than my less eloquent restatement of the philosopher John Stuart Mill’s famous “Harm Principle.”. In his 1859 essay On Liberty, Mill argued that “The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.”.
2 days ago · These tragic modern realities beg the question of how we arrived at this moment, in a war-torn, love-drained, and racially-segregated world—a world of enemies and strangers, of freedom gained at the unfreedom of certain others. Me, “ Planting Gardens of Belonging ” This decade has—for myself and many others—removed the illusion of ...
5 days ago · True freedom is possible only when we acknowledge something higher than our wants or desires. Rather than being a threat to our freedom, following the truth makes true freedom possible. Though this has been a common view in Western thought, it has fallen out of favor. We believe it depends upon three claims.
2 days ago · Crown/Archetype. In The Peloponnesian Wars, Thucydides defined “oligarchy” as rule by the few, and opposed it to “democracy.”. For Aristotle “oligarchy” meant rule by the wealthy few; the word in this sense was revived in the Russian language in the 1990s, and then, with good reason, in English in the 2010s. Snyder, Timothy.
