Full Idea
Liberal freedom developed as an antidote to political theories that consigned persons to destinies fixed by caste or class, station or rank, custom, tradition or inherited status.
Gist of Idea
Liberal freedom was a response to assigned destinies like caste and class
Source
Michael J. Sandel (Justice: What's the right thing to do? [2009], 09)
Book Reference
Sandel,Michael J.: 'Justice: what's the right thing to do?' [Penguin 2010], p.221
A Reaction
Virtually all human beings before modern times found that they had been 'assigned destinies'. The huge exception is war, especially civil war, which must be a huge liberation for many people, despite the danger.