Liberty

This chapter assesses the relationship between liberty and technology. Adopting a broad conception of liberty, covering both the normative and the practical optionality of developi...

Abstract When does liberty matter? It is often thought that personal liberty is always valuable and that it has a unique intrinsic value. This book argues that it is...

William Penn (1644-1718) – Quaker activist, theorist of liberty of conscience, and colonial founder and proprietor – played a central role in the movement for religious liberty on ...

Constitutionalism and Liberty: Essays in Honor of David K. Nichols explores the relationship between liberty and constitutionalism in American politics and political theory, and is...

Freedom was Orwell’s great ‘hurrah-concept’. It is a key refrain of his journalism and the ultimate goal of much of his fiction. Yet all of his fictional bids for freedom end in fa...

This chapter demonstrates how a number of women in eighteenth-century Europe exploited a contrast between ‘liberty’ and ‘licence’ in their political writings. The authors discussed...