Who would you call the ultimate intellectual progenitor of liberty? Sure, the first-degree precursors to modern libertarian though are John Locke, Frederic Bastiat, among others, but I mean further than that. Who is the most distant figure in history to wh

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Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 05:20:50 No.80378

Who would you call the ultimate intellectual progenitor of liberty? Sure, the first-degree precursors to modern libertarian though are John Locke, Frederic Bastiat, among others, but I mean further than that. Who is the most distant figure in history to which you trace the conception of freedom as we know it? Is it Cicero?

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Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 08:03:18 No.80383

>>80378

school of salamanca

Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 16:07:57 No.80407

>>80383

That's pretty late, historically speaking. Why not someone like Cicero? He was one of the earliest proponents of natural law and inalienable rights as they're accepted today.

Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 16:28:49 No.80408

>>80378

Whoever invented the flintlock.

Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 18:29:17 No.80411

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>>80378

The Cynics and Stoics. The Stoics a lot more so.

Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 19:39:52 No.80419

>>80407

laozi

Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 20:28:03 No.80423

>>80378

Satan

>"You should eat apple"

<"Can't, ~~the government~~ God said it's for my own protection"

Anonymous 03/29/18 (Thu) 09:55:51 No.80525

>>80411

laozi was first

he lived in the sixth century before christ

Anonymous 03/29/18 (Thu) 21:05:48 No.80577

>>80525

He might have been the earliest, but as a chink he's not really a part of the intellectual progeny of libertarianism, because he didn't have a direct influence on the line of Western philosophers that eventually led to libertarianism.

Anonymous 03/30/18 (Fri) 15:14:05 No.80649

>>80577

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