I do not disagree that Hegel has much to add. I question whether the English speaking people were totally ignorant of the subject before Hegel.
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Julio Huato <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com
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