| Description |
1 online resource (969 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Quote; Acknowledgements; Freedom's Progress; Preface; The Dawn of History; The Sophists and the Polis; Plato; Aristotle; Slavery; From Antipolis to Cosmopolis; Christianity; Augustine; After Rome; Gown and Town; Thomas Aquinas; Marsilius of Padua; Niccolò Machiavelli; The Reformation; Jean Bodin; Johannes Althusius; Hugo Grotius; Thomas Hobbes; The English Revolution; John Locke; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; David Hume; Kant; Edmund Burke; Hegel; John Stuart Mill; Karl Marx; Godwin and Stirner; Proudhon, Bakunin and Kropotkin |
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Warren, Spooner, Tucker and HerbertTwentieth-Century Tribalisms; War; Rand, Hayek, Nozick, Rothbard and Rawls; A Valediction; Back Matter; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In Freedom's Progress?, Gerard Casey argues that the progress of freedom has largely consisted in an intermittent and imperfect transition from tribalism to individualism, from the primacy of the collective to the fragile centrality of the individual person and of freedom. Such a transition is, he argues, neither automatic nor complete, nor are relapses to tribalism impossible. The reason for the fragility of freedom is simple: the importance of individual freedom is simply not obvious to everyone. Most people want security in this world, not liberty. 'Libertarians, ' writes Max Eastman, 'used |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Liberty -- History
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Political science -- Western countries -- History
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Liberty
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Political science
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Western countries -- Politics and government
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Western countries
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781845409609 |
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1845409604 |
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