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5575 | An obvious idea is a constitution based on maximum mutual freedom for citizens [Kant] |
Full Idea: A constitution providing for the greatest human freedom according to laws that permit the freedom of each to exist together with that of others is at least a necessary idea. | |
From: Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B373/A316) | |
A reaction: The basis of Mill's 'On Liberty'. Given that he claims it to be a necessary idea, it is strikingly characteristic of the Enlightenment, and not the sort of thing that occurred to people in 1320. Individual freedom acquired a value. John Lilburne? |