Gerald MacCallum critiqued an essay on this concept by arguing that it was a "triadic relation" between terms he denoted x, y, and z. Benjamin Constant contrasted the Ancients' view of this concept with its perception by the Moderns.
Quentin Skinner claims to have found a 17th-century "neo-Roman" version of this concept. Gerald MacCallum critiqued an essay on this concept by arguing that it was a "triadic relation" between terms he denoted x, y, and z. Benjamin Constant contrasted the Ancients' view of this concept with its perception by the Moderns. A noted essay on this concept argues that a man who decides to train himself to cut off his wounded leg rather than healing it exemplifies a "retreat to the (*) inner citadel" and warns that treating this concept as "self-mastery" may lead to the "Temple of Sarastro." Charlemagne and Akbar are held up as examples of necessary despots in a different essay on this concept, which was divided into "positive" and "negative" forms by Isaiah Berlin. For 10 points, name this concept, the subject of a John Stuart Mill essay outlining the "harm principle."
Quentin Skinner claims to have found a 17th-century "neo-Roman" version of this concept.
liberty [or freedom, since the distinction is too vague to rule that out]