Freedom

Harry Frankfurt discusses the compatibility between freedom of will and freedom of action in his article “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person.” He argues that these two freedoms can coexist with determinism, which is the belief that future events are influenced by past events (E) and natural laws (L). E refers…

Freedom of Speech in a Religious Assembly Let Freedom Ring “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God” (KJV Psalm 9:17). An average of over 160,000 Christians have been killed every year since 1990 (Colson). Statistically speaking there have been more recorded Christian martyrs in the twentieth century than…

The Sedition Act The Sedition Act of 1798 allowed for punishment of anyone found guilty of making false statements with the intent to oppose the federal government or incite sedition within the United States (Ragsdale, 2005). Both English and American courts had relied on a collection of court precedents and traditions to prosecute individuals for…

Thomas Aquinas on the Freedom of the Will(Q10a2 and Q13a6)  Free will and predestination were issues that shook the early medieval world. By Thomas’ time at the High Middle Ages, the influence of St. Augustine was still paramount in western thought, and hence, the question of the will and its capacities remained critical. For both thinkers,…

Freedom can be defined as the state of being free from something that can control you. Everyone including teenagers or even kids wanted to be free from their parents’ control because they find that when they are free from someone’s control, they can do anything they want. Teenagers and kids would definitely seek for freedom…

The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell and her students show many great examples of the vast importance of tolerance. This novel is about one teacher who taught her students tolerance and knowledge. This novel even shares how to support tolerance and diversity. Tolerance is important to have in this world because without tolerance, there…

Balancing Individual Privacy with Press Freedom Alan F. Weston, a privacy expert at Columbia university, once wrote: Privacy Is the claim of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated to others (self information control right). In this age of mass media, individual privacy…

Freedom is defined from different aspects, and according to different cultures, freedom varies from culture to another. Some define freedom as a natural right. Freedom is the right to do what one wants, live where he wants, eat what he wants, learns what he wants, and chooses the religion In which he believes, without ignoring…

Introduction Freedom Writers is a drama based on the book “The freedom writers’ diary” by Erin Gruwell and her students at the Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in California. The book is an agglomeration of the writings of these students, inspired by their teacher, to write about the experiences they had to undergo due to…

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it” Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 1791Prior to any attempt to answer this essay’s question, one must keep in mind that this notion entitled as freedom is one with many connotations which I will…