求200字英语作文(六级水平)What is your understanding of liberty?
求200字英语作文(六级水平)What is your understanding of liberty?
Explain how you understand liberty and illustrate your points with concrete examples.
The word freedom implies an individual is unfettered in any manner to act.Freedom implies no boundaries to limit human actions.
The concept of boundaries,however,transforms the word freedom into the word liberty.Whereas the concept of freedom ignores the concept of obligations,the concept of liberty implies potential
obligations.The word freedom ignores interactions with other humans,
the word liberty acknowledges those interactions.The word liberty
describes specific freedoms of action without obligations toward others,
but recognizes that obligations might exist.The concept of boundaries
introduces obligations toward other people.The concept of freedom
implies unrestricted movement and actions regardless of boundaries,but
the concept of liberty imply restrictions on actions because of boundaries.Liberty acknowledges possible boundaries and merely is freedom from fiat boundaries.
There is another word that describes the concept of liberty.Anarchy.
The 鈥淎鈥 word.A word that typically instills discomfort and uneasiness
into the minds of many.A word that many people today carelessly use to
imply bomb-throwing,unlimited boundaries,chaos,and disorder.What
exactly is anarchy?
A straightforward definition of anarchy means 鈥渨ithout rulers.鈥 For example,monarchy is the 鈥渁rchy鈥 or rule of one,oligarchy is the rule of a few,hierarchy is a layered rule; thus anarchy is the rule of none.
Although the Webster鈥檚 definition includes the 鈥渓ack of ...government,鈥 such a definition is misleading without defining the word government.
If government means a centralized organization of people commonly known
as the nation-state or any other form of external dictatorial
regulation of human action,then Webster鈥檚 definition is correct.However,if the word government refers to the process that is a natural and normal outgrowth of people forming groups and societies,then Webster鈥檚 definition is misleading.
Anarchy does not mean without rules,but is a philosophy and social system without rulers.Some people incorrectly define anarchy as no rules or boundaries,but
that most certainly would be a world of chaos and confusion.The
distinction between rules and rulers is important.Likewise,anarchy
does not mean a social system without leaders.In any group of people
certain individuals will exhibit or demonstrate special or unique skills
and abilities to lead others and to coordinate individual actions.
Thus,anarchy is not barbarism.Anarchy is not Utopian or idealistic but
a realistic logical conclusion to the principles of self and trespass.
Trespass is any violation of an individual鈥檚 body or resources.
By definition,trespass includes the threat of violation.Anarchy does
not necessarily prohibit self-defense,but prohibits initiating trespass.Many philosophical anarchists believe that any self-defense must be proportional to stopping the trespass.
Because anarchy is a social system without rulers,that philosophy is diametrically opposed to the philosophy of statism.Statism is an ideology embracing centralized rule,encouraging top-down dictatorial law,and embracing a policy or belief of using force and coercion and the threat of violence to satisfy needs and wants.
The French Liberals of the early nineteenth century also
recognized the distinction between voluntary and involuntary exchange,
articulating that difference as a class struggle between warriors
(bandits) and the industrious class (producers).This struggle can be expressed in many ways:power vs.liberty,takers
vs.producers,administrators vs.producers,force and coercion vs.
persuasion and cooperation,idlers vs.laborers,predators vs.creators,
moneyed elite vs.workers,exploiters vs.creators,status vs.
contract,or rulers vs.the ruled.The political means is merely a way
to sustain energy flows with minimal effort 鈥 the desire of getting something for nothing.
Statism is a philosophy of attempting to artificially create a
privileged social system,a unique subsystem of society attempting to
create virtual perpetual motion through the captured labor
of other people.Statism is a philosophy of creating a social system of
classes,an attempt to create superior and inferior social groups based
upon distinctions of rank or property titles.
Anarchy and statism are incompatible,which explains why statists
must mislead people by defining anarchy as chaos and disorder.Somebody
once declared that the only two political theories
that are completely consistent are anarchy and totalitarianism.Anarchy
fully embraces the concept of self,totalitarianism fully rejects that
concept.Statism always degenerates into totalitarianism.Anarchy is not a political system.Anarchy is apolitical.Anarchism is a philosophy 鈥 a social system.Anarchism is a conscientious decision to honor the freedom to choose without fear of trespass.
Anarchy is a logical conclusion to the concept of self.Liberty is anarchy.