Daffodil International University
Faculties and Departments => Faculty Sections => Faculty Forum => Topic started by: Farhananoor on May 06, 2014, 11:15:48 AM
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Concept of Freedom:
Freedom starts with a principle of self-control, also known as self-ownership. In a free society, each and every person has legal control (or "ownership") of their own body and mind. As such, the concept of freedom refers to a certain type of political empowerment. It refers specifically to equal empowerment. In other words, a free society is one with an equal distribution of legal rights and in which each and every person has as much legal rights as possible.
Because freedom entails political equality, freedom can only logically entail as much legal rights as compatible with the same legal rights in others. In a free society, any one person cannot have so many legal rights that all other people could not logically have the same amount of legal rights.
For example, freedom does not include the legal right to enslave someone else because freedom includes the legal right to not be enslaved. In another example, freedom does not include the legal right to non-defensively punch other people in the face against their will because freedom includes the legal right to not be offensively punched.
Basically, a free person has the legal allowance to do whatever he or she wants insofar as he or she does not offensively harm or coerce other people against those other people's wills. Remember, the limitation is a logical requirement. Freedom obviously can not include the legal right to limit other people's freedom because that would be illogical.
Freedom does include the legal right to defend oneself from others who attempt to offensively harm or coerce the free person.
There is an important reason to remember that freedom starts with a principle of self-control (or "self-ownership"). In a way, it would be politically equal--though socially absurd--for a person to have the legal right to inflict offensive harm on others if nobody had the legal right to not be offensively harmed. For example, in such an absurd society, people might all have the legal right to stab other people, but nobody could have the legal right to not be stabbed and thus would not have the legal right to defend themselves from it. To distinguish such an absurd but equal society from a free society, we must remember the principle of self-control (or "self-ownership").
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very informative...
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Informative post.