freedom Archives - Michael Ignatieff https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/tag/freedom/ Professor, writer, politician Sun, 14 Apr 2024 09:24:21 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/michaelignatieff.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-Michael-Ignatieff-website-icon-512x512px.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 freedom Archives - Michael Ignatieff https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/tag/freedom/ 32 32 217957751 Isaiah Berlin – The promise of freedom https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/2023/isaiah-berlin-the-promise-of-freedom/ Fri, 28 Jul 2023 08:27:25 +0000 https://michaelignatieff.ca/?p=2515 Berlin would have warned us against hubris and intolerance, but also against fatalism. In the battle to come, history is on no one’s side. The outcome of this struggle over who owns the meaning of freedom will come down, as it always does, to the eternal question that decides history’s shape: who is prepared to fight hardest for what they believe.

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]]> 2515 Rethinking Open Society https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/2018/rethinking-open-society/ Sun, 10 Jun 2018 09:00:00 +0000 https://wp19.infinhost.net/?p=1397 Upholding open society means accepting the “strain of personal responsibility, of carrying the cross of being human.” An open society is very demanding. It asks us to respect the dignity of others, especially of those with whom we may disagree and to make choices for ourselves and our community.

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]]> 1397 Academic Freedom From Without and Within https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/2018/academic-freedom-from-without-and-within/ Mon, 15 Jan 2018 09:00:00 +0000 https://wp19.infinhost.net/?p=1179 Academic freedom is too important to be left to universities to defend by themselves. Universities need to rebuild public confidence in their mission.

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