Faction as a condition of possibility of development of freedom in David Hume
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Faction, civil freedom, balance of power, enthusiasmCopyright (c) 2016 Santiago Álvarez García
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Abstract
This article shows how Hume, based on a definition of freedom as a historical process and an understanding of the faction as inevitable phenomenon in human political path, concludes that the harmful effects of the different factions do not crystallize, as in the case of justice and the origin of government, in a spontaneous balance, but require strategies in the executive and legislative to be controlled and reoriented in order to obtain from such control a fundamental socio-political advantage: the development and expansion of the experience of political freedom.
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