POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Consumerism, Unbridled, Territorial Authorities Of New Zealand
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Constant believes that our idea of freedom is best characterized as freedom from tyranny. It was direct: you were directly involved in it, no one was able to represent you. The ancient s freedom was participatory: to participate in legislation, voting, etc. Viewed liberty as public not private. it was a collective not an individual notion of freedom. Dependent upon a class of people who didn t engage in commerce or even work. Canada is not free because we have a representative government; economically dominated by the u. s. technically according to the ancients we are not free. The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor. isaiah berlin, two. Be very wary of any decree claiming to achieve the reconciliation of liberty and equality: it is either a lie or a tyranny. berlin, the hedgehog and the fox.
