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 | | Liang’s concern, on the other hand, remained primarily national.” (Huang 1972: 73) Peter Zarrow argues that rights, in Liang’s vision, are a duty on the individual to the group “because the group depends on its members for its cohesion and strength”. |
 | | Liberty, to Liang, is the opposite of slavery, referring to slavery of the mind rather than physical slavery, and has four major components; political liberty, religious liberty, national liberty and economic liberty. |
 | | It appears that Liang prescribed autonomy, self-respect and cultivation of the individual very much with political ends in mind, and that an idea of a sphere of privacy entirely independent from public interference was an anachronism is this theoretical universe. |
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