The Danger of Peace Being the Substance of a Lecture Delivered At Kings Colle
The Danger of Peace Being the Substance of a Lecture Delivered At Kings Colle
J W John William Allen
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By ^* liberty" I mean not merely Kant's self-deter- mined imperative of duty but, more w^idely, the freedom of the will to good. This is not the mere liberty to be which no violence can destroy; it is also the liberty to seek the good and to find expression for it; and these are things that violence may destroy. The will to good — the striving after the highest visible — call it, with the Greeks, justice, or, with Aquinas, the realiza- tion of God — call it what you will — is the pro- foundest ...thing in man and is that which gives value to his life. For every man the thing of 'TJj THE DANGER OF PEACE 17 supreme importance is his freedom to seek the good and to realize it as he can and as he sees it. If that be so, then the supreme evil is not loss of goods, or of friends, or of health, still less is it death, it is the suppression of freedorn. The worst thing that can happen to a man is that another should dominate and control his^ will by violence or threats of violence. This, ' think, is why we all feel that despotism is an evil, however enlightened or benevolent : this is why we feel that legal slavery is something far worse than what has been called wage slavery under modern conditions: this is why the use of organized force to dominate or suppress the will of others is sin against humanity.
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