By defining liberty as the enactment of personhood, liberalism can be reoriented toward a relational account. On this view, liberty is not about flourishing through non-interference, but about flourishing through caring relationships.

Instead, I suggest we think of freedom not as an end in itself, but as a means to enact our personhood. We need freedom whether we are defined as isolated individuals or as interconnected selves—the difference lies in what that freedom looks like.

I argue that this atomistic definition of persons overlooks the fact that humans are inherently relational. While liberalism has long been tied to atomistic personhood, recognising atomism's limitations does not mean the end of political liberalism.

Liberal political theory’s traditional focus on atomistic personhood—seeing individuals as self-contained beings whose status stems from intellectual abilities—has shaped our legal systems but does not reflect human nature and increasingly struggles to capture online harms.

Likewise!! I look forward to your next visit 😊

This is how I've set up Text-to-Speech, using Kokoro

Install kokoro in terminal:
pip install kokoro>=0.9.2 soundfile python-docx

then create a .py file with the script, the code I have used is now available here: gist.github.com/SharedAcadem...

this creates a .wav file based on the .docx.

then install an audiobook app for listening to longer files, as they enable bookmarking, note taking, and +10 and -10 second skips and rewinds, and enjoy listening

let me know if any of this needs more explanation and/or if it works for what you are wanting!

In the terminal, install
pip install pydub
and
brew install ffmpeg

Then run script to convert .wav into .mp3, available here: gist.github.com/SharedAcadem...

Once the audio file creation is complete you end up with a .wav file that you could convert to mp3, which is more compact. you could also do it in one go with the above script, but as it makes further requirements on what is installed I have separated them.

once you have the script set up as wanted, you can run it through the terminal. If you use software such as Visual Studio Code, the only thing you need to do is to make sure that the .docx file is in the same directory as the script, or else adjust the path in the configuration section of the script

you can change voices and languages in the configuration section, here are some samples of voices huggingface.co/hexgrad/Koko...

The code above defaults to US English, for British English use language code 'b'

This is how I've set up Text-to-Speech, using Kokoro

Install kokoro in terminal:
pip install kokoro>=0.9.2 soundfile python-docx

then create a .py file with the script, the code I have used is now available here: gist.github.com/SharedAcadem...

this creates a .wav file based on the .docx.

Sure! Not sure how familiar these terms are so please forgive any redundant over-explanation

I use Visual Studio Code for convenience, but the combination of a plain text file saved as .py for the code and running it in the terminal works too.