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but freedom is informed by a certain sense of restraint and awareness
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that not all things are permitted,
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that the good society will be one that promotes a sense of moderation,
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restraint and self-control, self-governance,
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as Adeimantus says,
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that are inseparable from the experience of freedom.
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In many ways Aristotle there offers, as does Plato,
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a certain kind of critique of the modern
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or even the ancient democratic theory of freedom,
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which is living as one likes.
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You can see these opening pages of the book,
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dense argument being condensed in very deep ways,