Freedom and Flourishing
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
How did beliefs about individual rights travel from Cicero to Locke?
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This rather long post follows on from one in which I asked how we got from natural law to natural rights. In case you are wondering, the...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2019
How did we get from natural law to natural rights?
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It seems to be becoming fashionable these days for people in the western world to downplay the importance of liberty. Some people even exp...
Friday, August 9, 2019
How could the great philosopher of human flourishing endorse slavery?
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Aristotle (384-322 BCE) was the great philosopher of human flourishing. He argued that although health, wealth, honour, pleasure etc. ma...
Saturday, August 3, 2019
Was individual liberty discussed as a political ideal in the ancient world?
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“There seems to be scarcely any discussion of individual liberty as a conscious political ideal (as opposed to its actual existence) in th...
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