FREEDOM FROM WHAT? FREEDOM OF THOUGHT, FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE, AND FREEDOM OF RELIGION IN THE CONTEXT OF POWER
Keywords:
authority, autonomy, behaviour, belief, freedom, legitimacy, powerAbstract
This conceptual paper explores the complex relationship between power and freedom, with special reference to freedom of thought, freedom of conscience, and freedom of religion. Starting from a relational definition of power as “action upon action” (Foucault, 1982), and a logical definition of freedom as “of something, from something, to do something” (MacCallum, 1967), I suggest two original typologies of power and, respectively, freedom – in interconnection. Fully restoring cognition, emotion, volition, and the self to this model moreover informs a universal principle of legitimacy, a dynamic network of integrated interaction, and the conceptual relationship between thought, conscience, and religion themselves.
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