Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Morality, Happiness and Freedom: The Role of a Monarch in a Modern Nation-State
The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from ... [dealers] … ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined ... [because they] ... have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public.
Adam Smith
In order to discuss the concept of freedom, it is important to ask first what it is that an individual would be free to do. One view of freedom is that it means being able to do what one wants to do. This is the "primitive" view of freedom, or negative freedom as proposed by writers such as Mills and Locke: "Liberty, 'tis plain, consists in a power to do or not to do; to do or forbear doing as we will."
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