What is freedom

Thanks to Praveen for starting me on this .. :) I would have posted something on freedom may be a couple of posts down the line but any way here goes.........................

Freedom is often miss-interpreted as free will. Why ? Because people have different concepts of freedom Btw -- Has nothing to do with "free will" check my earlier post about "free will"

Freedom has multiple meanings .. again depending on what the point of view is

1. Political Freedom – It is the absence of interference with the sovereignty of an individual by the use of coercion or aggression. Freedom is commonly known as a state of being free from government oppression. The opposite of a free society is a totalitarian state, which highly restricts political freedom in order to regulate almost every aspect of behaviour. In this sense ‘freedom’ refers solely to the relation of humans to other humans, and the only infringement on it is coercion by human

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2. Economic Freedom – It comes from the libertarian tradition emphasizing free markets and private property, while another extends the welfare economics study of individual choice, with greater economic freedom coming from a "larger" (in some technical sense) set of possible choices

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3. Freedom (Ethical) – Here we are speaking about morality – what is good / bad , right/wrong . I see it as the justification that you give your self after taking any action or inaction

Are these three definitions different?

I don’t think so all of them depend on ethics .. well then what is ethics

Ethics is a branch of philosophy that deals with moral responsibility.

I could go on about ethics but will stop here to see what everyone has to say about Freedom

….. Ethics we can cover in another post

C

ps: I could be wrong :) remember its my point of view .. would like to discuss this and other ideas to learn about other points of view ... Keep posting guys