The concept of liberty is frequently invoked when discussing rights in the United States, both individual and constitutional. Less often brought up, however, is what exactly constitutes liberty. Is it delineated in the Constitution? Do we as humans possess some innate sense of what liberty is and what our rights are? No clear consensus has yet emerged. The dictionary definition states that libe...

The thesis of methodological individualism in social science is commonly divided into two different claims – explanatory individualism and ontological individualism. Ontological individualism is the thesis that facts about individuals exhaustively determine social facts. Initially taken to be a claim about the identity of groups with sets of individuals or their properties, ontological individu...