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FeaturesJanuary 2013 Selected responses Remarks on the papers from our symposium "The Pillars of Liberty."
Kenneth Minogue responds to Roger Kimball: I have a quibble about “liberty forged in a painful process,” the passage of civilization. My understanding of liberty is that we drifted into it towards the end of the Middles Ages, and it wasn’t very painful. We just sort of discovered it. The Magna Carta is a response to the fact that a custom of consultation between the barons and the king had grown up, and John wanted to ditch it, so it was defended. People in universities began seeking the coherence of Christian doctrine, and university inquiry developed a certain impetus of its own. Many ups and downs, of course, but these practices could not be put down. So what led to the emergence of liberty was a set of liberties that just grew up. I was ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 31 January 2013, on page 41 Copyright © 2013 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Selected-responses-7523
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