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Full Idea
One sort of freedom is ruling and being ruled in turn.
Gist of Idea
One principle of liberty is to take turns ruling and being ruled
Source
Aristotle (Politics [c.332 BCE], 1317b1)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Politics', ed/tr. Reeve,C.D.C. [Hackett 2017], p.145
A Reaction
This is a lovely challenge to our modern idea of liberty, which largely consists of being left alone.
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| 19924 | The freest state is a rational one, where people can submit themselves to reason [Spinoza] |
| 19871 | Freedom is not absence of laws, but living under laws arrived at by consent [Locke] |
| 5621 | The existence of reason depends on the freedom of citizens to agree, doubt and veto ideas [Kant] |
| 22085 | Freedom requires us to submit to a family, or a corporation, or a state [Hegel, by Houlgate] |
| 23818 | We have liberty in the space between nature and accepted authority [Weil] |
| 21017 | Political freedom is an incoherent project, because some freedoms limit other freedoms [Nussbaum] |
| 18661 | Ancient freedom was free participation in politics, not private independence of life [Kymlicka] |