 | Steven Lukes - Biography & Autobiography - 1985 - 704 pages
...tr. 1956a, pp. 89-90 (SL). Cf. Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws, x 1, 3:'... liberty can consist only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will'. 26. 1925a, p. 52: tr. p. 46. 27. ibid. (SL).... | |
 | Walter Lippmann - 212 pages
...1943), Part II, Ch. XXL classical and Christian tradition. As Montesquieu put it, freedom "can consist only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will."8 We are free if we have the faculty of knowing... | |
 | Stephen Holmes - Free enterprise - 1993 - 358 pages
...from a liberal perspective some desires are legitimate and others are not. Thus "liberty can consist only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will." The primacy of moral norms over subjective... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...of liberty" (15th ed., p. 397, footnote 8, 1980). But see also No. 1073. 1055 True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will. 20I/Liberty In the editor's introduction... | |
 | Brian Galligan - Political Science - 1995 - 304 pages
...whatever the law permitted: In governments, that is, in societies directed by laws, liberty can consist only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will ... Liberty is a right of doing whatever the... | |
 | H. Roelofs - Philosophy - 2010 - 337 pages
...to do as we please. On the contrary, he states, "in societies directed by laws, liberty can consist only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will."" Montesquieu is a decidedly modern political... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - Philosophy - 1999 - 534 pages
...to retain liberty. Political liberty, says Montesquieu, does not consist in unrestrained freedom but 'only in the power of doing what we ought to will and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will'.1 'Liberty is a right of doing whatever the... | |
 | Vukan Kuic - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 190 pages
...Put together, these two definitions affirm that "in societies directed by laws, liberty can consist only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will."6 In Adler's terms, then, Montesquieu sees... | |
 | Robert Alun Jones - Social Science - 1999 - 344 pages
...in an unlimited freedom. In governments, that is, in societies directed by laws, liberty can consist only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will." Liberty, in short, is "a right of doing... | |
 | Herbert Blumer - Blumer, Herbert, 1900-1987 - 2000 - 404 pages
...this world is limited on the one hand by what Montesquieu had said about freedom, that it "can consist only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will,"" 7 and, on the other, by what William James... | |
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In governments, that is, in societies directed by laws, liberty can consist only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will. 
