224 Ancient Vs Modern Ideas Of Liberty
Oct 19, 2015•9 min•Ep. 224
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Episode description
Benjamin Constant was a French classical liberal writer who lived through the French revolution and the reign of terror. Assessing what had gone wrong with the revolution, he came up with a distinction between two conflicting ideas of "liberty" that had influenced the people involved— an ancient concept of liberty and a modern one. His distinction is still useful today and can help make sense of the incompatible ways in which different people talk about freedom.
Show Notes:
Show Notes:
- The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns by Benjamin Constant (1816)
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