Are You Free? A Conundrum
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Freedom is understood as either having the ability to act or change without constraint or to possess the power and resources to fulfill one's purposes unhindered. Freedom is often associated with
liberty and
autonomy in the sense of "giving oneself one's own laws", and with having
rights and the
civil liberties with which to exercise them without undue interference by the state. Frequently discussed kinds of political freedom include
freedom of assembly,
freedom of association,
freedom of choice, and
freedom of speech.
In one definition, something is "free" if it can change easily and is not constrained in its present state. (Physicists and chemists may use the word in this sense.
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Philosophy and
religion sometimes associate freedom with
free will, without undue or unjust constraints on that will, such as
enslavement. It is an idea closely tied with the concept of
negative liberty.
Charles Taylor resolves one of the issues[
which?] that separate "positive" and "negative" theories of freedom, as these were initially distinguished in
Isaiah Berlin's seminal 1958 lecture,
"Two concepts of liberty". Taylor sees it as undeniable that there are two such families of conceptions of political freedom. Negative liberty is a concept that is often used in
political philosophy. It is the idea that freedom means an ability to do what one wants, without external obstacles. This concept has been called too simplistic for discounting the importance of individual self-realization.[
citation needed]
Positive liberty is the ability to fulfill one's purposes.
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