Freedom and State

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The objective of this essay is to analyze the relationship between freedom and the state as perceived and argued by various thinkers. The author looks at the views of such political theorists as Niccolo Machiavelli, Marsilius, John Stuart Mill, John Locke, Rousseau, Thomas Paine and more.

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"Mill was against the natural rights theory. He maintained the position that what actually make liberty valuable is that both men and women in the society must possess equal rights. He believed that liberty is an important factor to both self-development and to human progression. As a crusader of equal right for men and women, Mill argued that even if women were inferior to men as proposed by some thinkers, this should not be a reason for maintaining systems of social and political subordination that prevent them from developing their characters and contributing to what Mill termed as moral regeneration of humanity. His argument of individual liberty is the one where the state has the capacity to use its power to ensure that people do not interfere with or cause any harm to social interests through their actions or by not fulfilling their civic responsibilities to the state."

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