Saint-Just’s Illusion – Interpretation and the Powers of Philosophy
Bernard Williams, 29 August 1991
“... in particular, by other people. Some thinkers, such as Hobbes and, some of the time, John Stuart Mill, think that this is the conception of freedom, and that it contains all that one knows or needs to know about its value. But this is to identify the seed and the plant, or the rhythm and the dance; it does not get us very far in answering ... ”