Was it an american idea? I'm not sure.
2006-09-26 11:52:39 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Sorry coragryph, but I think I've seen through you this time.
2006-09-26 12:08:11 · update #1
It's what happens with social species.
Though if you're looking for philosophers, Aristotle and Socrates wrote a bunch of papers on it. John Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau also wrote stuff about freedom and government.
2006-09-26 11:55:59 · answer #1 · answered by Roger Y 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eve and Lilith. God said there were rules. Eve and Lilith, each in their own way, said no. Or pick any other creation myth.
The concept of freedom, and its practice, have existed for as long as mankind has existed as a species. It's the concept of rules and the concept of government that are comparably recent creations, going back between five and eight thousand years.
2006-09-26 11:54:44 · answer #2 · answered by coragryph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the concept of freedom has been around since man has been walking on the earth.
2006-09-26 12:02:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
capt. kirk ,episode 14
2006-09-26 12:01:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure it predates the US.
2006-09-26 11:54:39 · answer #5 · answered by a4140145 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋