Harold J. Laski: “Consciously or unconsciously, it starts from the assumption that there…”

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Consciously or unconsciously, it starts from the assumption that there is a greater right in some claims than in others.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski critiques systems that prioritize certain claims over others, undermining the principle of equality.

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Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.

We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.

The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.

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Harold J. Laski: “Consciously or unconsciously, it starts from the assumption that there is a greater right in some claims than in others.”