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Consider: “Liberty or freedom, signifies properly the absence of opposition in external impediments of motion.” (Hobbes)

  • UPSC 1999
  • Western Political Thought

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The definition opens chapter 21 of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (1651), "Of the Liberty of Subjects". In full: liberty, or freedom, signifieth properly the absence of opposition; by opposition, I mean external impediments of motion. It is the founding statement of negative liberty, borrowed from physics and applied to people unchanged. The definition guards a private…

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  • A Definition Taken from Physics
  • The Liberty of Subjects
  • Legacy
  • Critiques
  • The Indian Anchor
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