Difference between revisions of "Inalienable Rights"

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**An offender transgresses the law of nature - living by rules other than those of reason and common equity, and so becomes dangerous to mankind.  Anyone may, therefore, act to restrain the offender.
 
**An offender transgresses the law of nature - living by rules other than those of reason and common equity, and so becomes dangerous to mankind.  Anyone may, therefore, act to restrain the offender.
 
===Liberty and Liberties===
 
===Liberty and Liberties===
F.A. Hayek, in his book <u>The Constitution of Liberty</u>, is concerned with "that condition of men in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as is possible in society".
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F.A. Hayek, in his book <u>The Constitution of Liberty</u>, states in the first chapter that it is concerned with "that condition of men in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as is possible in society".
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*'''"A state of liberty or freedom"''': He also brings in the concept of arbitrariness by talking about "the state in which a man is not subject to coercion by the arbitrary will of another" and calls this personal frreedomThis is Hayek's definition of "a state of liberty or freedom".
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