Direct and Overall Liberty: Areas and Extent of Disagreement

Originally published in Reason Papers

This article tries to clarify some of the limitations of the classical liberal/libertarian principle of liberty, and to assess those limitations in some rough way. Our larger impetus is to defend the position that the principle of liberty is not undone by its limitations, that, as such things go, it remains quite coherent and worthy—our voice is that of the Smith-Hayek liberal.

This article tries to clarify some of the limitations of the classical liberal/libertarian principle of liberty, and to assess those limitations in some rough way. Our larger impetus is to defend the position that the principle of liberty is not undone by its limitations, that, as such things go, it remains quite coherent and worthy—our voice is that of the Smith-Hayek liberal.

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