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The Idea of Freedom in Contemporary American Political Thought
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2009
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In this paper I propose to examine and compare certain contemporary American conceptions of the central idea in American political thought—freedom and its synonym, liberty.
I should like to begin by recalling to your minds the Puritan Father John Winthrop's twofold definition of liberty as:
1) natural liberty, “the liberty to do as [one] lists”;
2) moral liberty, the liberty to do “only that which is good, just and honest.”
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* Twelfth Annual James Taylor Lecture, delivered April 12, 1973, at Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas.