Liberty One of the central concerns of social and political philosophy has been the issue of what limits, if any, there are to the right of the state to restrict the "liberty" of its citizens. Unless one is convinced of the truth of...

At least three American magazines since the late nineteenth century have called themselves Liberty. The most commonly known is the mass-circulation pulp magazine that reached a circulation of 2.4 million during the 1930s, when it was controlled by the...

Liberty (or freedom) is often divided by political theorists into two types, for analytic clarity. Negative liberty refers essentially to ‘absence of external constraints’ (see state of nature). Thus, as long as there is no law or social...

The relationship between ecclesiology and MISSIOLOGY is particularly interesting. There is a sense in which missiology is a subdivision of ecclesiology, for it is the church that is mandated to mission and it is the lay and ordained members of the...

Few men desire liberty: the majority are satisfied with a just master. (Roman) I would rather have a restless liberty than a quiet slavery. (Roman) Lean liberty is better than fat slavery. (German) Liberty is a thing of inestimable value. (Roman)...

The freedom of the will, or political freedom. See liberal...

Liberty is generally considered a concept of political philosophy and identifies the condition in which an individual has the ability to act according to his or her own will. Individualist and liberal conceptions of liberty relate to the freedom of the...