Liberty
Liberty After reading the Liberty section in the Encyclopedia of Political Philosophy and Montesquieu, I took away many things. One being Montesque defining liberty as " a tranquillity of mind arising from the opinion each person has of his safety". I really agree with how he said "safety". Liberty is commonly recognized as freedom, what he is saying is that we feel free when we feel safe. I completely agree with this, everyone that lives in fear is almost like a prisoner to their own safety willing to take others’ liberties away to reach their own. He also says that in order to obtain liberty we have to have laws set in place to make us feel protected, but still free. I am not really sure I agree with this. The laws set in place to protect us mean not everyone will have liberty. The guys locked up in prison for being a menace to society don't have liberty. Anyone can go to prison, they just got caught. Also in order for these laws to protect us, they have to be...