Questions tagged [freedom]
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What is freedom of speech?
There are various questions regarding freedom of speech, but didn't find any about what it really means.
Therefore, what does it mean freedom of speech?
Is it the right to say everything without consequences?
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What is the difference between intellectual freedom and spiritual freedom?
What do the two, intellectual freedom and spiritual freedom, mean and how do these two differ?
Intellectual freedom is widely known but I can't seem to find reliable sources that point out the meaning of spiritual freedom.
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Is Isaiah Berlin's distinction between positive and negative freedom trivially exhaustive?
Are Isaiah Berlin's positive and negative freedoms trivially exhaustive? Wikiepdia says he argued for:
the need for us to distinguish and trade off analytically between,
rather than conflate, them, if we are to avoid disguising underlying
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Are we free to be ourselves or only free to express who we are?
A stone is free to be itself as long as it is not interferred with through some force acting to change it.
But if we are only free to be ourselves and not free to be other than ourselves, then there is no freedom to be ourselves, rather, being…
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Is Classical Sharia Law as described in the Koran compatible with the Constitution and current US Law?
When discussing whether Muslims can successfully integrate into American culture, it is important to consider the political component of Islamic teachings known as Sharia Law.
For Islam, Sharia Law is supposed to be the supreme law of the land,…
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Is freedom always either completely subjective or psychopathic?
If we define freedom in its purest form as
The right to do whatever you want.
then this is clearly a very psychopathic concept. The right to do whatever you want? So if you want to kill, you have that right? If you want to rape, you have that…
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What are criticisms of reducing desire to form freedom?
. As Berlin puts it, if I have a wounded leg ‘there are two methods of freeing myself from pain. One is to heal the wound. But if the cure is too difficult or uncertain, there is another method. I can get rid of the wound by cutting off my leg’…
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