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Equality

Charles Dudley Warner

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Rousseau little credit for originality, but considerable for illogical misconception. He was, in fact, the most illogical of great men, and the most inconsistent even of geniuses. The Contrat-Social is a reaction in many things from the discourses, and Emile is almost an entire reaction, especially in the theory of education, from both.

His central doctrine of popular sovereignty was taken from Locke. The English philosopher said, in his second treatise, "To understand political power aright and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in; and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their persons and possessions as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man—a state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another; there being nothing more evident than that cr. . . Read More

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Liberty

Instrumental value to serve the well-being of society, not a value in and of itself.

Relationship of liberty and restraint - “...if restraints are minimized, if the largest possible measure of liberty is accorded to all human beings, the result will not be equality but inequality...”

Liberty o

There are books that I don't really understand when I finish them, but they make me think alot. This is one. A Victorian lawyer attacking John Stuart Mill. I have made the argument that laws are not based on protecting people's rights but on stopping things we find morally repugnant. He agrees!

James Fitzjames Stephen wrote this book to address the view of liberty, equality, and fraternity advanced by John Stuart Mill. Though the slogan for which the book is named is most well known for its association with the French Revolution, Stephen was more concerned with the seemingly plausible, and

Excellent, broadening book in response to JS Mill.

Anyone who has seen or read Les Miserables, probably knows that the French Revolution gave birth to the rallying cry, “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”. But this idea still resonates today.
This document is really a critique of John Mill’s “On Liberty”. It was written at a time that was far less polit

I discovered this book while reading something about Mill. It was a critique of Mill's On Liberty and it presents a number of arguments that are hard to fault, but also a number of arguments that, if spoken today, would require endless apologies and may even require one to step down as a politician.