liberty

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> timework@xxxxxxxxx 09/05/01 08:24AM >>>
Michael Perelman asked,

> What does liberty mean?

According to the anonymous author of the Source and Remedy of the National
Difficulties, "wealth is liberty -- liberty to seek recreation -- liberty to
enjoy life -- liberty to improve the mind: it is disposable time, and
nothing more." So liberty is disposable time.

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CB: What would undisposable time be ? So is "disposable time" basically equivalent to "free time", "time I can do what I want to do "  ?

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Public happiness, in the sense of "life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness", according to the Marquis de Chastellux can be estimated by
examining "whether the performance of that duty, which the sovereign exacts
from him, be within, or beyond the time, which each man can spare from his
absolutely necessary avocations." (Thanks to Ian Murray for bringing
Chastellux to my attention). Happiness is thus also disposable time.

The Declaration of Independence might thus be translated as proclaiming the
inalienable right to life, disposable time and the pursuit of disposable time.