Liberty versus Licence in Early Modern Poland
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Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, Andrzej Wolan, Aristotle, Cicero, Bodin, political philosophyAbstract
The paper explores early modern Polish treatises by Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski and Andrzej Wolan on the difference between the concepts of liberty and license. Put in international context, we argue that the Polish philosophical tradition at the time represented by the aforementioned authors was mostly in line with the Aristotelian and Ciceronian views on liberty being an intra legal, and license being an extra legal concept.
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