There is a trajectory from Renaissance emphasis on political liberties through Enlightenment individual rights to Romantic creative self-expression to existentialist absolute idealization of freedom, representing an increasing absolutization and idealization of the notion of individual freedom.

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Unidentified Speaker — A History of Philosophy | 41 John Locke [CM2VHOgb_HA]

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“what you get beginning in the Renaissance with the emphasis on political liberties what you get gradually is earning crease at solid to say absolute ization and idealization of the notion of individual freedom”

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A History of Philosophy | 41 John Locke— wheatoncollege
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