The Propriety of Liberty: Sentiments, Sociability and Civilization in Modern Political Thought

这个项目挖掘了现代政治思想中一个独特的、被淹没的责任概念，它认为自由取决于一个人对自己的激情或情绪的适当控制的程度。与此相关的是，它认为，推动个人行动的人类激情，应该按照礼仪和社交的要求加以约束。这项研究阐明了政治思想的历史方法在勾勒这些思想的众多和不同来源方面的重要性，并探索了个人对激情的管理如何被视为先进商业文明中公民繁荣的关键。

This project excavates a distinctive through submerged concept of liability on modern political thought, which argues that freedom depends upon the extent that one has propriety control over one's passions or sentiments. Correlatively, it suggests that human passions, which move individuals to action, be restrained according to the requirement of propriety and sociability. The research illustrates the importance of an historical approach to political thought in outlining the many and varied sources of these ideas, and explores how individual management of the passion came to be seen as crucial to the flourishing of citizens in advanced commercial civilizations.