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(2010) Anarchism and moral philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer.

Kicking against the pricks

anarchist perfectionism and the conditions of independence

Samuel Clark

pp. 33-44

The crude thing I want to say is that a free, non-dominating society cultivates flourishing, independent individuals; that such individuals in turn support a free, non-dominating society; and that this is the best reason for advocating such a society. The most appealing thing about the imagined anarchist utopia is the people it would make possible, and who would make it possible: "O brave new world / That has such people in't" (Shakespeare, 1951: 24).

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230289680_3

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Clark, S. (2010)., Kicking against the pricks: anarchist perfectionism and the conditions of independence, in B. Franks & M. Wilson (eds.), Anarchism and moral philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 33-44.

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