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Vol.1 Issue 26, December 2020 ELITE

ON FREEDOM

Nour yehia, second level, economics

Revolution is an illustration of the refusal of any kind of
Freedom in general is the fact of detaching oneself
manipulation and hindrance to freedom. This was the
from any form of pressure , having a light heart, the
perception of the liberal school on the causes of t his
possibility of doing what one wishes without the
revolution. It is through the transition from the a bsolute
submission to a certain constraint or hindrance.
monarchy to the Republic and the emergence of the
The concept of freedom is generally broad and can
Enlightenment that we will develop freedom of thoug ht.
vary from one context to another. It is illustrated
This revolution marked "the rebirth of freedom of
through mediation in many ways, either in
expression". This is also the case of the American
Philosophy, Politics, thought, or even art.
Revolution in the United States. A law will be legi slated in
the Constitution that states that "Congress will no t make
any law restricting freedom of expression or freedo m of
First of all, this concept varies according to the
the press". This movement also contributed to the freedom
region where one is, so we can say that freedom is
of faith according to the declaration of rights of Man and
not defined the same way everywhere in the world. If
citizens in 1789 " No one can be worried for his op inions,
we start with the West, we can see that the
even religious ones, provided that their manifestat ion does
application and implementation of this concept
not disturb the public order established by law ". It is
appears through the emergence of the Enlightenment.
therefore about freedom of expression, opinion and
It is to The Allegory of Plato's cave that we describe
thought, conscience and religion. Initially, in Fra nce,
this era that people are locked up by their own ideas
anyone who is not Catholic was frowned upon, and wi th
and their own thinking unable to see the outside
the emergence of the concept of secularism, everyon e
became free to choose their faith.
world. During the development of any kind of
science, we develop different forms of freedom and
To conclude, we can say that freedom is a process t hat
we can build our own ideas from these discoveries
rises in the West from the emergence of the Enlight enment
and by their guiding light. This movement of Light
movement and that its implementation is a process t hat
demands the nativity of individual freedom, equal
lasts over time. In the 19th century, freedom of ex pression
rights, freedom of thought and belief. First of all , we
was not absolute since the writer Aurore Dudevant w ho
will deal with some of these freedoms. Individual
had written her first novel under the pseudonym Geo rge
freedom and more precisely in France was risen
Sand had a male outfit because of the male figure
following the French Revolution of 1789. Individual
attributed to writers, which shows that freedom rem ains
freedoms consist of several freedoms that must be restricted. Indeed, despite the fact that we are in the 21st
century, freedom remains relative and in several co untries,
protected and guaranteed by the sovereign. Before
freedom is restricted by its political regime such as the
detailing this point, we can note that the French
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Chinese Communist regime.