Jean Calvin, who built upon Augustine's Judeo-Christian thought, was against trying to build a utopia. ... The twentieth century journalist Malcolm Muggeridge accepted Calvin's view while critiquing enlightened utopian views. ... Certainly, Calvin's Geneva strove to better living conditions, but did not attempt to perfect them. The philosophical train of thought that governed Calvin's Geneva saw that it is better not to improve the living conditions if people are only prisoners, but to provide freedom for them. ... John Locke was an Englishman who wrote down many of the...

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Introduction EDWARD B. MCLEAN Western man's pursuit of liberty has been constant. Indeed, the concept of liberty is central to Western political thought and history. The following essays, which were the first of the Goodrich Lecture Series at Wabash College, examine the concept of liberty as it h...

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