Harold J. Laski: “Its object is what alone we should aim at were we free to will only…”

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Its object is what alone we should aim at were we free to will only our permanent good.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski emphasizes that the ultimate aim of our will should be our permanent good.

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Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.

Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.

The State has power only for the protection of natural law.

The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.

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Harold J. Laski: “Its object is what alone we should aim at were we free to will only our permanent good.”