Sentence examples for arguments for liberty from inspiring English sources

His strategy is to make pragmatic arguments for liberty.

Shaftesbury argued for this position in a way that anticipates J.S. Mill's arguments for liberty of speech in chapter 2 of On Liberty.

Though ultimately he never published his detailed arguments for sexual liberty for fear of the odium they would bring on his general philosophy, Bentham felt compelled to think them through in detail, to write about them repeatedly and to discuss them with his acquaintances.

None of Reid's arguments for moral liberty are decisive.

But, if so, the justification for this crucial operation of the framework must appeal to some of "the moral arguments for individual liberty" from which Nozick wants his utopia argument to be independent.

This is the provision of an independent vindication of the minimal state one that specifically does not depend on "the moral arguments for individual liberty" (309 footnote*) offered in Parts I and II of Anarchy, State, and Utopia.

There may be (and Leiter thinks there is) a principled argument for protecting liberty of conscience (so long as claims of conscience do not involve burden-shifting), but "there appears to be no equally principled argument that picks out distinctively religious conscience as an object of special moral and legal solicitude".

The significance of Hume's necessity argument for the liberty arguments seems clear in light of this.

This is the idea that drives Reid's third argument for moral liberty.

Reid's second argument for moral liberty raises this question in a powerful form.

Reid links the third argument for moral liberty with the argument from design for God's existence.