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25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 6. Political freedom

[ability to participate in government of society]

8 ideas
One principle of liberty is to take turns ruling and being ruled [Aristotle]
The freest state is a rational one, where people can submit themselves to reason [Spinoza]
Freedom is not absence of laws, but living under laws arrived at by consent [Locke]
The existence of reason depends on the freedom of citizens to agree, doubt and veto ideas [Kant]
Freedom requires us to submit to a family, or a corporation, or a state [Hegel, by Houlgate]
We have liberty in the space between nature and accepted authority [Weil]
Political freedom is an incoherent project, because some freedoms limit other freedoms [Nussbaum]
Ancient freedom was free participation in politics, not private independence of life [Kymlicka]