On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Perelman, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am not sure that the English speaking world needed Hegel to learn the word > freedom. People spoke about free men (not women, of course), well before > Hegel. The term franklin denotes a member of a social class or rank in > England in the 12th to 15th centuries. In the period when Middle English was > in use, a franklin was simply a freeman; that is, a man who was not a serf, > in the feudal system under which people were tied to land which they did not > own, in bondage to a member of the nobility who owned that land. Every human being could learn from Hegel, about freedom and a whole bunch of other things. It seems to me that the notion of freedom in the English-speaking world is rather narrow. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
