Philosophy w11

• Napoleon the Great stated that "Man is destined to obey either the rules of nature or the standards set by his society and religion".
• If people continue to be moral due to societal standards, man is subjected to blind conformity to his/her superiors.
• Freedom of choice is the opportunity and autonomy to perform an action selected from at least two available options, unconstrained by external parties.
• Freedom of choice is different from free will because it covers the internal aspect of your liberality, while free will acts on the external aspect of your liberality.
• If you had the free will to choose which guy perfectly matches your preferences, how would you choose if there are no choices presented? In short, no men are courting you.
• The dark ages were defined as dark in terms of the absence of artifacts and writings about humanity, referred to as "lack of records".
• People during the medieval eras had to obey the church.
• Some philosophers in the post-medieval era revived the ancient Greek and Roman philosophies of how they obtained their societal glory through education and the introduction of the Renaissance Period (Rebirth).
• The study of freedom began to teach every citizen in the hope to unravel the mystery of man’s skills and talents that enlighten the foundation of human society.
• Freedom is the ability to act or change without constraint.
• Freedom is "free" if it can change easily and is not constrained in its present state.
• The sense of freedom paradoxically appears when the church teaches the concept of Free Will and even though man during those medieval times does not have the choice to rule under the power of the church or not for it entails the punishment of death, the Bible gives us the power of free will to choose the life and death, the good and evil.
• Liberalism is a political philosophy or worldview founded on the idea of liberty and equality.
• Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally, they support ideas such as free and fair elections, civil rights, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, free trade, and a right to life, liberty, and property.
• Libertarianism is the group of political philosophies which advocate minimizing coercion and emphasize freedom, liberty, and voluntary association.
• Libertarians generally advocate a society with significantly less government compared to most present-day societies.
• Academic Freedom is given to teachers and students for them to be able to teach, study, and pursue knowledge and research without unreasonable interference or restriction from law, institutional regulations, or public pressure.
• Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction.
• Freedom of religion or religious liberty is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.
• Freedom of Information (FOI), or the right to information, can be defined as the right to access information held by public bodies.
• The right to freedom from slavery prohibits people being held in conditions in which the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised.
• Liberty to abode includes the right to choose one's residence to leave it whenever one pleases, within the limits prescribed by law, to travel where one wills, and to return to his place of residence, except in the interest of national security, public safety, and health.
• The right to privacy is an element of various legal traditions to restrain governmental and private actions that threaten the privacy of individuals.
• Prudence is the art of taking moral principles and applying themes to concrete situations.
• Prudence is about truth, the truth of what is and what must be done.
• Prudence is the truth that sets us free.
• There are times when “right” and “freedom” are interchangeably used, but the two concepts have a slight difference:
• Right is a common privilege given to all citizens for example the right to vote, the right to property, the right to worship, the right to information, etc.
• Freedom is when you have no constraints to conduct your actions -“freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to rebel, freedom to complain, etc.”
• In short, freedom is having a right while right is something you can demand when you do a duty.
• Duty is another topic that will be discussed in your Contemporary World in College.
• Free will is the ability to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded.
• Free will is closely linked to the concepts of moral responsibility, praise, guilt, sin, and other judgments which apply only to actions that are freely chosen.