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Liberty, Individualism and Responsibility.

Liberty, Individualism and Responsibility. Your role in the world. Liberty. 1. PERSONAL LIBERTY, AS FROM SLAVERY, BONDAGE, SERFDOM, ETC 2. LIBERATION OR DELIVERANCE, AS FROM CONFINEMENT OR BONDAGE 3. THE QUALITY OR STATE OF BEING FREE, ESP TO ENJOY POLITICAL AND CIVIL LIBERTIES

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Liberty, Individualism and Responsibility.

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  1. Liberty, Individualism and Responsibility. Your role in the world.

  2. Liberty • 1. PERSONAL LIBERTY, AS FROM SLAVERY, BONDAGE, SERFDOM, ETC • 2. LIBERATION OR DELIVERANCE, AS FROM CONFINEMENT OR BONDAGE • 3. THE QUALITY OR STATE OF BEING FREE, ESP TO ENJOY POLITICAL AND CIVIL LIBERTIES • 4. THE STATE OF BEING WITHOUT SOMETHING UNPLEASANT OR BAD; EXEMPTION OR IMMUNITY: FREEDOM FROM TAXATION • 5. THE RIGHT OR PRIVILEGE OF UNRESTRICTED USE OR ACCESS: THE FREEDOM OF A CITY • 6. AUTONOMY, SELF-GOVERNMENT, OR INDEPENDENCE • 7. THE POWER OR LIBERTY TO ORDER ONE'S OWN ACTIONS • 8. PHILOSOPHY, THE QUALITY, ESP OF THE WILL OR THE INDIVIDUAL, OF NOT BEING TOTALLY CONSTRAINED; ABLE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN ALTERNATIVE ACTIONS IN IDENTICAL CIRCUMSTANCES • 9. EASE OR FRANKNESS OF MANNER; CANDOUR: SHE TALKED WITH COMPLETE FREEDOM • 10. EXCESSIVE FAMILIARITY OF MANNER; BOLDNESS • 11. EASE AND GRACE, AS OF MOVEMENT; LACK OF EFFORT

  3. Liberty cont…. • Freedom, independence, liberty refer to an absence of undue restrictions and an opportunity to exercise one's rights and powers. Freedom emphasizes the opportunity given for the exercise of one's rights, powers, desires, or the like: freedom of speech or conscience; freedom of movement. Independence implies not only lack of restrictions but also the ability to stand alone, unsustained by anything else:

  4. What has this idea created. • U.S.A • French revolution • Ethics • Invention • Law • Government • Life

  5. Individualism 1. • a. Belief in the primary importance of the individual and in the virtues of self-reliance and personal independence. • b. Acts or an act based on this belief. 2. • a. A doctrine advocating freedom from government regulation in the pursuit of a person's economic goals. • b. A doctrine holding that the interests of the individual should take precedence over the interests of the state or social group. 3. • a. The quality of being an individual; individuality. • b. An individual characteristic; a quirk.

  6. Individualism cont… • Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, or social outlook that stresses "the moral worth of the individual". Individualists promote the exercise of one's goals and desires and so value independence and self-reliance while opposing most external interference upon one's own interests, whether by society, family or any other group or institution.

  7. Responsibility • 1. The obligation to carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion. With responsibility goes authority to direct and take the necessary action to ensure success. • 2. The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to the possession or supervision of an individual. See also accountability.

  8. Responsibility cont…. • Moral responsibility usually refers to the idea that a person has moral obligations in some situations. Disobeying moral obligations, then, becomes grounds for justified punishment. Deciding what justifies punishment, if anything, is a principle concern of ethics. • Society generally holds people responsible for their actions, and will say that they deserve praise or blame for what they do. However, moral responsibility is not necessarily the same as legal responsibility. A person is legally responsible for an event when it is that person who is liable to be penalised in the court system for an event. Although it may often be the case that when a person is morally responsible for an act, they are also legally responsible for it, the two states do not always coincide.

  9. Responsibility cont….. • Greeks and citizenship • Social contracts • Morals and ethics • Chaos and mayhem • Democracy • Fraternity • Equality

  10. What would you do? • A pregnant woman leading a group of people out of a cave on a coast is stuck in the mouth of that cave. In a short time high tide will be upon them, and unless she is unstuck, they will all be drowned except the woman, whose head is out of the cave. Fortunately, (or unfortunately,) someone has with him a stick of dynamite. There seems no way to get the pregnant woman loose without using the dynamite which will inevitably kill her; but if they do not use it everyone will drown. What should they do? • You are an inmate in a concentration camp. A sadistic guard is about to hang your son who tried to escape and wants you to pull the chair from underneath him. He says that if you don’t he will not only kill your son but some other innocent inmate as well. You don’t have any doubt that he means what he says. What should you do?

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