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JULY 26: A MOMENT FOR REFLECTION
(Liberia clocks 176 years today since gaining political independence on July 26, 1847. Yet, despite Liberia’s age, the nation remains one of the poorest in the world, plagued by rampant corruption and bad governance. The following is a short reflection piece I wrote back in 2019, as a call to reawaken our national consciousness. I…
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Freedom and Perfectibility in the Political Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
By Abraham Keita- Student, Yale University What is freedom, or stated more precisely, what does it mean to be free or have free will? Is freedom a natural condition of the individual? Does individual freedom find legitimacy and full expression in political or civil society, or does this society hinder it? In an attempt…
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Montesquieu on the Nature and Principle of Political Regime
Like classical and medieval political philosophers and thinkers, Charles de Montesquieu does provide an account of political regime. Unlike them, he does not classify regimes based on the intentions or passions of the rulers. Put another way, Montesquieu has no theory of virtue versus vice. According to the ‘ancients’ or classical tradition, a good regime…
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