Let US Define The word of Freedom
People throw around terms like 'freedom' and 'liberty' without ever stopping to think what they mean. I mean people are wiling to die for them without ever understanding, or even thinking about, what they actually are.
The definition of freedom differs depending on who you ask. Sartre claimed that we are all completely free 100% of the time. We are free to choose what ever course of action we like. We might not think we are free to kill for example because we could go to prison. Sartre contends that this is only a constraint as far as we allow to be. He went on to say that our freedom allows us to choose anything even how tall a mountain is or the color of the sky. The only counter point to his view of extreme freedom was his claim that we are only slaves to our facticity. i.e. if our body does not allow us to jump over a building we are not free to do so.
Politically speaking freedom seems to be defined as 'you are free to do what we tell you!' No society with laws and other constraints over our choices could ever be deemed as 'free.' Perhaps then the founding fathers of the U.S. were being somewhat misleading when they gave the country the handle 'land of the free,' they should have continued to say 'dont be surprised if you end up in prison if we dont like your choices, ...make my day etc.'
However if you want a real head **** consider this. If everything in the world is made up of molecules, atoms etc, and everything physical complies to the laws of cause and effect, then we have no freedom whatsoever, this is all just one big inescapable chain of causation.
Enjoy the ride!!!!
Statue of Liberty stands for " Liberty" is the one meaning of "freedom".
a] it includes Political Freedom particularly with respect to speech, religious practice and freedom of press .
b] it includes Economic freedom that the less a government acts to interfere with the economic freedoms of businesses and individuals, the healthier the economy will tend to be. Other schools of economic thought argue that the public sector need not always be seen as an unwanted intruder on the economy, that government action should not be seen as necessarily freedom-infringing.
Freedom, si anarchy deasemenea: Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. Anarchism stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals for the purpose of producing real social wealth; an order that will guarantee to every human being free access to the earth and full enjoyment of the necessities of life, according to individual desires, tastes, and inclinations.
Emma Goldman
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