Chapter 13. Can Politics Survive the Twenty-first Century ( Read more... )

Chapter 13. Can Politics Survive the Twenty-first Century ( Read more... )

Chapter 10 The Experience of Politics: III. Justice, Freedom, and Democracy ( Read more... )

Chapter 8. The Experience of Politics: I. How to be an Activist ( Read more... )

Chapter seven: Conclusion ( Read more... )

Chapter seven: Conclusion
I.: The Moral Character of Liberalism
... Thus one may reproach oneself not only for acts which one chose oneself to commit, but also for acts which were done in one’s name by more or less representative political bodies; or for acts done by people long dead.
( An example of the latter case would be the European anti-colonialist who reproaches himself for the entire colonial policy of his country, a man fruitlessly concerned to reproach himself with what “we” once did to “them.” )

Chapter six: Freedom ( Read more... )

Chapter six: Freedom
I.: Freedom as a Manner of Living
...It was courage which Pericles identified, partly for topical reasons, as the first quality of Athenians. But it was courage of a very complex kind. For Aristotle, courage was a mean between rashness and cowardice, and for Plato it was the knowledge of what is not to be feared.

( When men claim that they love freedom, they can mean many things )

Chapter five: Society and Its Variations ( Read more... )

Chapter five: Society and Its Variations ( Read more... )