Re: liberty

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 1:14 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:16854] liberty


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

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Since it's a short historical distance from Locke to Condillac,
Chastellux and Condorcet, Locke's 'utopia' was a *3* hour
workday....If I remember my source right it's in one of Richard
Ashcraft's texts.....

Ian