I have no philosophy of liberty, because I have no philosophy of anything. However, I know that I have various attitudes, of many of which I’m unaware; attitudes that govern the way I think and speak and act, and if these attitudes were dragged out into the open and put into some kind of order they’d pass for a ragged, shambling, half-baked philosophy of a kind. They’d make up a sort of template for the person I am. No doubt that philosophy would be full of contradictions and ambiguities and some downright nonsense, but I don’t mind that: I’m English, and the English can tolerate a great deal ...
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