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Modern Conceptions of Freedom

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesCC.111
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2013English
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This course examines the modern definition of freedom, and the obligations that people accept in honoring it. It investigates how these obligations are captured in the principles of our political associations. This course also studies how the centrality of freedom plays out in the political thought of such authors as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Burke and Montesquieu, as well as debating which notions of freedom inspire and sustain the American experiment by careful reading of the documents and…

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