Liberty

Carl J. Friedrich was Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University. During World War II he helped found the School of Overseas Administration at Harvard to train officers for work in military government abroad. He was professor of political science at the University of Heidelberg from 1956 to 1966, where he founded and helped to develop the Institut fur Politische Wissenschaft. He served as president of the American Political Science Association in 1962, the International Political Science Association from 1967-1970, and the Institut international de philosophie politique.

Preface, 1. Stages in the History of Political Freedom, 2. Rousseau's Concepts of Freedom in the Light of His Philosophy of History, 3. Freedom, Authority, Conscience, and Development: Mill, Acton, and Some Contemporary Catholic Thinkers, 4. John Stuart Mill: Political and Economic Liberty, 5. Some Notes on Political Freedom and on a Famous Essay, 6. Mill and the Justification of Social Freedom, 7. Mill and Some Present Concerns About Ethical Judgments, 8. Mill on Paternalism in Its Place, 9. Freedom and Individuality: Mill's Liberty in Retrospect, 10. Freedom and Opportunity as Competing Social Values: Mill's Liberty and Ours, 11. Liberty and Truth: The Responsibility of Science, 12. Problems of Religious Liberty, 13. Freedom-An Empirical Interpretation, 14. Toward a Constant Definition of Freedom and Its Relation to Value, 15. Strategies of Freedom: The Widening of Choices and the Change of Goals, 16. Freedom and Power: Common Men and Uncommon Men