On the idea of freedom in modern African political philosophy.
When Liberia, at its inception, adopted for her motto, "The Love of Freedom Brought Us Here," they were registering their embrace of a core tenet of modernity: the idea that freedom was the primary state of humanity and that any form of social living that turned this free being into a bonded phenome...
| Publicado en: | Southern Journal of Philosophy Vol. 62; pp. 38 - 54 |
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