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Kant

Immanuel Kant anchors liberty in moral autonomy, arguing that freedom consists not in doing as one pleases but in obeying laws one can rationally will for all. The human being is always an end in himself, never a means to an end. By grounding rights and political authority in universal moral law, he delivers a decisive insight for free societies: power is legitimate only when it respects the equal moral agency of every person.