A brief history of liberty /
"Using a fusion of philosophical, social scientific, and historical methods, A Brief History of Liberty offers a succinct survey of pivotal moments in the evolution of personal freedom, drawing on key historical figures from John Knox and Martin Luther to Karl Marx and Adam Smith to Roger Willi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2010.
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| Series: | Brief histories of philosophy.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Using a fusion of philosophical, social scientific, and historical methods, A Brief History of Liberty offers a succinct survey of pivotal moments in the evolution of personal freedom, drawing on key historical figures from John Knox and Martin Luther to Karl Marx and Adam Smith to Roger Williams and Thurgood Marshall. The authors examine how past (if incomplete) successes in the struggle for liberty have led many of us to liberty's "last frontier": internal psychological obstacles to our being as autonomous as we would like to be. Readers are encouraged to reflect on their own concepts of personal freedom - what it is, where it comes from, why they have it, and what it has done for them."--Jacket |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 267 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1444318292 9781444318296 9781444358797 1444358790 1282382578 9781282382572 9786612382574 6612382570 1444318284 9781444318289 |