1. Liberty
MCLEAN Western man's pursuit of liberty has been constant. ... The idea of liberty received its greatest impetus and universal appeal from Christianity, which breathed life into it by revealing its connection with the providence of God. ... "[B]oth men,"" Martin writes, "would affirm [liberty], but liberty within the context of authority."" ... In the seventeenth-century, liberty was seen as freedom from restraint; thinkers rejected the previously held belief that liberty is to be used to achieve the good. ... Furthermore, Hobbes's notion of liberty is descriptive of the value of...
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