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« on: August 31, 2015, 03:24:01 PM » |
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I regard them as exact synonyms. As you point out, one has a saxon etymology, and the other is norman. There are many examples of this in the English language, owing to the battle of Hastings.
Obviously some attempts have been made to distinguish between liberty and freedom, but I don't really think that these have caught on in the general press.
(See, for example:
Pitkin, H., 1988, ‘Are Freedom and Liberty Twins?’, Political Theory, 16: 523–52.
Williams, B., 2001, ‘From Freedom to Liberty: The Construction of a Political Value’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 30: 3–26.
and others.)
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