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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 543 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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LIBERTARIANISM (from Lat. libertas, freedom)

LIBERTARIANISM (from See also:
LAT
Lat. libertas, freedom) , in See also:

ethics, the See also:

DOCTRINE

doctrine which maintains the freedom of the will, as opposed to necessitarianism or See also:

DETERMINISM (Lat. determinare, to prescribe or limit)

determinism. It has been held in various forms. In its extreme See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form it maintains that the individual is absolutely See also:

FREE

free to See also:

CHOSE (Fr. for " thing ")

chose this or that See also:

ACTION

action indifferently (the liberum arbitrium indifferentiae), but most libertarians admit that acquired tendencies, environment and the like, exercise See also:

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control in a greater or less degree.

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