Liberty and Yirtue in the American Founding
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2008
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1733-2680
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Oficyna Wydawnicza AFM
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"Liberty and virtue are not a likely pair. At first sight they seem to be contraries, for
liberty appears to mean living as you please and virtue to mean living not as you
please but as you ought. It does not seem likely that a society dedicated to liberty
could make much of virtue, nor that one resolved to have virtue could pride itself
on liberty. Yet liberty and virtue also seem necessary to each other. A free people,
with greater opportunity to misbehave than a people in shackles, needs the guidance
of an inner force to replace the lack of external restraint. And virtue cannot come
from within, or truly be virtue, unless it is voluntary and people are free to choose
it. Americans are, and think themselves to be, a free people first of all. Whatever
virtue they have, and however much, is a counterpoint to the theme of liberty. But
how do they manage to make virtue and liberty harmonious?"(...)
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Krakowskie Studia Międzynarodowe 2008, nr 1, s. 91-107.