Download or read book Liberty Worth the Name written by Gideon Yaffe and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Gideon Yaffe shows us that Locke conceived free agency not just as the freedom to express oneself, but as including also the freedom to transcend oneself and act in accordance with "the good." For Locke, exercising liberty involves making choices guided by what is good, valuable, and important. Thus, Locke's view is part of a tradition that finds freedom in the imitation of God's agency. Locke's free agent is the ideal agent.".