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‘ The existence of Liberty depends upon our willingness to build the foundations of society upon the basis of rational justice and to adjust them to changing conditions in terms of reasoned discussion and not violence.’ (Harold J. Laski). Discuss.

  • UPSC 1991
  • Equality and Liberty

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The statement sums up the argument of Harold J. Laski's writings on liberty in the 1920s and 1930s. It makes two claims. Liberty rests on a foundation, a just social order, and is not a natural endowment. It also depends on a method: the order must be revised by reasoned discussion, because violence destroys what…

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  • Liberty needs a just foundation
  • Why reason, not violence
  • The Indian illustration
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