Liberty before Liberalism

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• 如果研究思想史将有助于我正在宣称的某种用途的话，那必定是在一些更深的层面上。在那种层面上，我们把我们现在的价值观念和我们所提出的表面上有些相异的解释进行对比。我并不是说思想史家将转变成为道德家。我自己非常羡慕那些全然缄默的历史学家，当他们看到人类的罪行、愚蠢和不幸时，他们故意无动于衷，缺乏同情或义愤。我特别想要说，思想史家要去为他们的读者提供一些知识，这些知识有助于他们对现在的价值观念和信仰做出判断，并留给他们去反思。 (查看原文)

  Irreversus 1赞 2012-04-05 18:26:11

• p77-79 A number of critics argued that, even if this contention is not actually incoherent, the suggestion that an equal right to participate in government is indispensable to the maintenance of civil liberty is so utopian as to make it irrelevant to the political world in which we live. This objection was widely canvassed at the time of the American and French revolutions, with William Paley coming forward in his \emph{Principles of Morals and Political Philosophy} in 1785 as perhaps the most influential spokesman for what became the classical liberal case. As Paley urges in minatory tones, those definitions of liberty ought to be rejected, which by making that essential to civil freedom which is unattainable in experience, inflame expectations that can never be gratified, and disturb ... (查看原文)

  无脊椎 2013-04-13 09:26:38

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