... by examining the concept of liberty in Republican Rome and its transformation from the period of the Republic to the Empire. In the Republic, liberty was a religious tenet reserved exclusively for Romans. Juridically protected, it was considered necessary to preserve Roman morality. After the collapse of the Republic, the concept of liberty remained as a rhetorical support for the emperor, but its substantive ... meaning had changed. One development in this period, however, enhanced both the value and future success of liberty, for: Out of the political wasteland of the collapse of the R...

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... that Machiavelli's most profound and promising vision of and the most political of his images of the citizen can be manifested. Machiavelli's Republic Considering Machiavelli's concepts of virtu and the functional role of the citizen in state affairs, we can infer that Machiavelli's republicanism is ... rogue strategies in state rule are simply means at achieving an ordered state. To Machiavelli, the logical creation of an ordered state is a republic characterized by political and civil liberty. "Any form of government, including republican or popular government, which does not fulfill ...

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... Stuart Mill, he believes that democracy protects the freedom of self-determination better than any alternative political system that has ever been devised. Another important factor is moral autonomy. Plato's Republic pointed this out nearly 2000 years ago and states that if you are to make your own rules, you will be less likely to break them. It is perhaps useful ... were devout Catholics; given the explicit humanism and atheism of communists, it becomes even more obvious why they never achieved popular legitimacy in Poland (Holmes, 1997,69). Also, because the Roman Catholic Church was...

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