Liberty—Concepts





Liberty—Concepts

Introduction

Liberty generally refers to the notion of freedom. It may be the freedom to express oneself in the form of thoughts, behaviors, or actions i.e. the freedom to do something; or it may be the freedom to remain free and uninfluenced by external factors in the society such as oppression i.e. the freedom from something. Freedom refers to the notion of liberty and can be negative as well as positive. Roshwald (2000) has formally defined liberty as “the capacity of an individual or a group to act as he or she wills, the action involving effort ...