Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Name: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
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ISBN: 9780865971110

ISBN-10: 0865971110

ISBN-13: 9780865971110

Edition: 1993

Authors: James Fitzjames STEPHEN, Stuart D. Warner

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Students of political theory will welcome the return to print of this brilliant defence of ordered liberty. Impugning John Stuart Mill's famous treatise, On Liberty, Stephen criticised Mill for turning abstract doctrines of the French Revolution into "the creed of a religion". Only the constraints of morality and law make liberty possible, warned Stephen, and attempts to impose unlimited freedom, material equality, and an indiscriminate love of humanity will lead inevitably to coercion and tyranny. Liberty must be restrained by custom and tradition if it is to endure; equality must be limited to equality before the law if it is to be just; and fraternity must include actual men, not the…

Book details

List price: $12.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Liberty Fund, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 299
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English