Freedom

T.H. Green, in his article ‘Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract’ (in Works of Thomas Hill Green, vol. 3, ed. R.L. Nettleship, London: Longmans Green, 1888) defines freedom as ‘a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying, and that too, something that we do or enjoy in common with others’.

Freedom and Faith Doctrine

From the book The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law, about Freedom, Faith, Doctrine (1): The constitution in declaring the freedom of all men to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences, does not give a church member the right to repudiate the faith and doctrine on which the church was founded, and at the same time to insist on his right to exercise and enjoy the benefits and privileges of a member of such church. Every person joining a church, impliedly, if not expressly, agrees to conform to its rules and to submit to its authority and discipline.253 A person who has been expelled from a religious society can not maintain an action for services rendered the society while he was a member.

Entries related to Politic and Economic Freedom

• Freedom from government
• Fiscal freedom meaning
• Business freedom
• Monetary freedom
• Freedom of expression
• Freedom of association
• Freedom of movement

Freedom (in the Human Development Area)

In this context, Freedom means: In “Development as Freedom:, Sen identified five such instrumental freedoms: (I) political freedom; (II) economic facilities; (III) social opportunities; (IV) transparency guarantees; (V) protective security.

Constitutional Liberty or Freedom

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Notes and References

1. Charles M. Scanlan, The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law. The Law of Church and Grave (1909), Benziger Brothers, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago

See Also

• Civil Liberty
• Civil Right
• Legal Right
• Citizen Freedom
• Political Liberty
• Constitutional Right
• Political Right
• Freedom of Speech
• Bill of rights
• Constitutional freedom
• Religion

Further Reading

• Arneson, R.J. (1985) ‘Freedom and Desire’, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 15 (3): 425–448.
• Benn, S.I. and Weinstein, W.L. (1971) ‘Being Free to Act and Being a Free Man’, Mind 80 (3): 194–211.
• Berlin, I. (1958) ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’, in Four Essays on Liberty, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969; repr. in D. Miller (ed.) Liberty Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Dworkin, G. (1982) ‘Is More Choice Better than Less?’, in P.A. French, T.E. Uehling, Jr and H.K. Wettstein (eds) Midwest Studies in Philosophy, VII, Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota University Press, 47–61.
• Feinberg, J. (1973) Social Philosophy, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
• Feinberg, J. (1980) ‘The Interest in Liberty on the Scales’, and ‘The Idea of a Free Man’, in Rights, Justice, and the Bounds of Liberty, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Gray, J.N. (1980) ‘On Negative and Positive Liberty’, Political Studies 28 (4): 507–526.
• Green, T.H. (1888) ‘Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract’, in Works of Thomas Hill Green, vol. 3, ed. R.L. Nettleship, London: Longmans Green; abridged by D. Miller (ed.) Liberty, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
• MacCallum, G.C. (1967) ‘Negative and Positive Freedom’, Philosophical Review 76 (3): 312–334; repr. in D. Miller (ed.) Liberty, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Miller, D. (1991) Liberty, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Pelczynski, Z.A. and Gray, J.N. (1984) Conceptions of Liberty in Political Philosophy, London: Athlone Press.
• Rawls, J. (1971) A Theory of Justice, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 201–210.
• Swanton, C. (1992) Freedom: A Coherence Theory, Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company.