Freedom as Discourse in Western Tradition

Document Type : Science - Research (Political Science)

Author
Farshad Shariat
Faculty member of Imam Sadiq University
10.30497/pk.2018.2162
Abstract
Freedom is an abstract concept that is more understandable with its constraints. Freedom within the fabric of the Socratic philosophy was just a virtue. In the Christian era, at first, it had a theosophical meaning and then in context of Scholastic era changed, as servant of God. Then in the modern age, it reduced as security and possessive individualism. Analyzing freedom as a discourse, this article shows why and how each concept of freedom has its proper context in history and political philosophy; ancient and modern. Therefore, the unity and uncontested attitude is essentially unconscious and non-historical. By a comparative and analytical method, this article pursues freedom as a discourse  through its observation in ancient and modern in western political philosophy, and consequently  shows that why and how freedom  is a discourse  and originally has its own philosophical and historical context; specifically fabricated for its proper society, and is not necessarily comparable in the general form.
Freedom as Discourse In Western Tradition
Abstract
Freedom is an abstract concept that is more understandable with its constraints.
Freedom within the fabric of the Socratic philosophyو meanly Aristotle and Plato, was just a virtue. Then in the modern age, reduced as security and possessive individualism. Analizing freedom as a discourse, This article shows why and how each concept of freedom has its proper context in history and political philosophy; ancient and modern. Therefore, the unity and uncontested attitude is essentially unconscious and non-historical. By a comparative and analytical method, this article pursues freedom as a discourse through its observation in ancient and modern in western political philosophy. and consequently shows that why and how is the freedom is a discourse and originaly has its own philosophical and historical context; specifically fabricated for its proper society. And is not necessarily comparable in the general form.

Key words: freedom, Liberalism, Virtue, Security ,Ownership
Keywords
Freedom
liberalism
virtue
Security
ownership
Subjects
 
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Journal of Political Knowledge
Volume 13, Issue 2 - Serial Number 26
ESSAY
November 2017
Pages 59-75

  • Receive Date 09 September 2017
  • Revise Date 21 November 2017
  • Accept Date 04 December 2017