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Ingredients of Freedom
What is freedom? Where do we get our notions of freedom? Is freedom granted by politicians and authorities, or is our freedom apriori, or innate…does it reside within as part of our being? Is freedom our birthright? John Locke (1632-1704), one of the great influential philosophers of his period, argued against the prevailing belief of his time that God made all people the subjects of Monarchs.
Accordingly, God gave monarchs the power to bestow...