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Recent writing on the nature of freedom has served to underline a crucial gap in the academic experience
List of contents
Preface, 1. Stages in the History of Political Freedom, 2. Rousseau's Concepts of Freedom in the Light of His Philosophy of History, 3. Freedom, Authority, Conscience, and Development: Mill, Acton, and Some Contemporary Catholic Thinkers, 4. John Stuart Mill: Political and Economic Liberty, 5. Some Notes on Political Freedom and on a Famous Essay, 6. Mill and the Justification of Social Freedom, 7. Mill and Some Present Concerns About Ethical Judgments, 8. Mill on Paternalism in Its Place, 9. Freedom and Individuality: Mill's Liberty in Retrospect, 10. Freedom and Opportunity as Competing Social Values: Mill's Liberty and Ours, 11. Liberty and Truth: The Responsibility of Science, 12. Problems of Religious Liberty, 13. Freedom-An Empirical Interpretation, 14. Toward a Constant Definition of Freedom and Its Relation to Value, 15. Strategies of Freedom: The Widening of Choices and the Change of Goals, 16. Freedom and Power: Common Men and Uncommon Men
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Carl Friedrich
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Recent writing on the nature of freedom has served to underline a crucial gap in the academic experience
