ABSTRACT
Public liberty can be fully upheld as an aim in itself, as it is the method for the social management of purposes that are aims in themselves. Freedom of science, freedom of worship, freedom of thought in general, are public institutions by which society opens to its members the opportunity for serving aims that are purposes in themselves. By establishing these freedoms, society constitutes itself as a community of people believing in the validity and power of things of the mind and in our obligations to these things. Freedom is demanded by the dedicated individual in view of the grounds to which he is dedicated. The concrete system of the liberties and obligations of individuals, groups, and institutions, which is the liberty of self-dedication, is necessarily a traditional and inherited system.
