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http://www.cato-unbound.org/2010/03/10/david-schmidtz-and-jason-brennan/conceptions-of-freedom/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2010/03/12/tom-g-palmer/liberty-is-liberty/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2010/03/23/david-schmidtz-and-jason-brennan/reflections-on-the-history-and-language-of-liberty/ liberty as half a see-saw, other half being duty to respect liebrty: x axis me to you, y axis liberty to duty If only half the see saw is moved, it is a broken model David Schmidtz and Jason Brennan, "A Brief History of Liberty" Berlin says historians documented two hundred ways of using the term "liberty", and he is writing only about two central ones, positive and negative. Constant’s distinction between individual [“modern”] and collective [“ancient”] liberty liberty must be discussed initially as an individual right. Freedom is an inherently social concept, devoid of meaning outside of society, whereas the concept of assets (or wealth) is not an inherently social concept. A man all alone on a planet, with no connections with other moral agents, can hardly be said to be either free or unfree. He doesn’t live in a free society, just as he doesn’t live in a generous society. For the same reason, he could not be said to be unfree. He doesn’t live in a society, at all. Liberty, like generosity and kindness, refers to a relationship among persons (or at least among moral beings of some sort). (It may involve other terms, as well, but it is nonsensical to invoke the concept of liberty without invoking a multiplicity of persons.) Tom Palmer
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