{"product_id":"9781614872337","title":"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen's book is the finest exposition of conservative thought in the latter half of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Sir Ernest Barker, \u003ci\u003ePolitical Thought in England—1848 to 1941\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStudents of political theory will welcome the return to print of this brilliant defense of ordered liberty. Impugning John Stuart Mill's famous treatise, \u003ci\u003eOn Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephen criticized Mill for turning abstract doctrines of the French Revolution into \"the creed of a religion.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly the constraints of morality and law make liberty possible, warned Stephen, and attempts to impose unlimited freedom, material equality, and an indiscriminate love of humanity will lead inevitably to coercion and tyranny. Liberty must be restrained by custom and tradition if it is to endure; equality must be limited to equality before the law if it is to be just; and fraternity must include actual men, not the amorphous mass of mankind, if it is to be real and genuine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStuart D. Warner\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Roosevelt University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liberty Fund Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158031319280,"sku":"9781614872337","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781614872337_p0.jpg?v=1763854068","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781614872337","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}