Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Cecilia Bembibre, in Nov. 2009
Freedom is understood to be one of the most intrinsic conditions of the human being, one that, however, has been restricted for many centuries to very important groups in society. According to the Universal Declaration of Human rights, freedom cannot be separated from the human condition since all individuals are born free and cannot and should not be subjugated in any way. Freedom is then the ability of the human subject to make all kinds of decisions regarding his lifestyle, his beliefs, his values and the ways of knowing him.
The term freedom is closely related to the French Revolution, historical moment in which the foundations for freedom were established politics of the citizens but also the bases for the social and civil liberty of the individuals. Freedom would also be related, later, with currents of thought economic (the liberalism) who supported it as the basis of their actions and who sought to limit the interference of organisms and institutions
such as the state. Freedom today is primarily related to the notion that every individual is born free and that no aspect of his or her existence can be determined by another in adulthood.Freedom is such a complex and difficult term to define in a matter of a few words, that it can be analyzed from various aspects: from the philosophical aspect and the notion of freedom as an element intrinsic of the human being; from the sociological aspect and the idea of the freedom of the individual over the whole social entity; from the anthropological level and the understanding of freedom throughout the peoples; from the psychological point of view and its analysis of the personal freedom of each subject or from the political point of view and the idea of political freedom on any type of abuse or censorship.
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