Difference between revisions of "What Is Liberty?"
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== Libertarians Avoid Saying What Liberty Is == | == Libertarians Avoid Saying What Liberty Is == | ||
| − | Libertarians are big on prescriptive (philosophically normative) descriptions of what they want as liberties. But they evade positive statements of what liberty IS. | + | Libertarians are big on prescriptive (philosophically normative) descriptions of what they want as liberties. But they evade positive statements of what liberty IS. Essentially, the libertarians have no clothes. |
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Usually libertarians provide some examples of what they consider liberty, but examples do not provide a definition. For example, if I tell you birds and mammals are examples of vertebrates, that doesn't tell you if fish are vertebrates or what vertebrates really are. And of course it can also lead to faulty generalizations, such as that vertebrates are warm blooded. | Usually libertarians provide some examples of what they consider liberty, but examples do not provide a definition. For example, if I tell you birds and mammals are examples of vertebrates, that doesn't tell you if fish are vertebrates or what vertebrates really are. And of course it can also lead to faulty generalizations, such as that vertebrates are warm blooded. | ||
{{QuoteOne|Review Essay: Brian Doherty’s Radicals for Capitalism.../amazing}} | {{QuoteOne|Review Essay: Brian Doherty’s Radicals for Capitalism.../amazing}} | ||
| + | {{QuoteOne|The Heterodox ‘Fourth Paradigm’ of Libertarianism: an Abstract Eleutherology plus Critical Rationalism/theory}} | ||
== Liberty as a glittering generality of propaganda. == | == Liberty as a glittering generality of propaganda. == | ||
