Can liberty be absolute? Explain.
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Explanation:
This perception is largely due to the fact that they have accepted the libertarian notion of liberty. The libertarian movement has done much to injure the cause of liberty by crippling the terms with which they mean to defend it, predominantly due to the fact that liberty is not the goal of the libertarians, not in the capitalist sense. In terms of philosophic hierarchy, the libertarians put the cart before the horse in the sense that they attempt to argue for the political supremacy of liberty while ignoring the underlying philosophic foundation requisite to reach that conclusion.
Libertarianism holds liberty as an ultimate political end – what liberty means is, adhering strictly to subjectivist dicta, for each man to determine on his own. More simply, libertarians do not define their terms. They agree that “liberty” is the goal which they should pursue in a political context, but they make no distinction between one libertarian’s understanding of liberty and another’s. So long as “liberty,” free from context or explanation, is an individual’s political goal, then the libertarians will count him as one of their own.