Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Name: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Brand: Liberty Fund Inc. (US)
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Written by James Stephen

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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 amorphous mass of mankind, if it is to be real and genuine.

ISBN-13: 9780865971110
Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc.
Imprint: Liberty Fund Inc. (US)
Publication date: 1 January 1992
Format: Paperback
Pages: 299
Dimensions: 150 x 230 mm
Language: English