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Philosophical concept

Freedom

Freedom is the capacity to act without undue constraint and also the autonomy of judgement in relation to passions or determinations.

Works
253
Passages
7,915
Thinkers
43
Traditions
15

Understand uses of the concept

Freedom is the capacity to act without undue constraint and also the autonomy of judgement in relation to passions or determinations.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 7,915 passages across 253 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Caligula. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: liberte, liberté, freedom, free, libertas

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  3. CaligulaAlbert Camus · 4 passages
  4. The Myth of SisyphusAlbert Camus · 13 passages
  5. State of SiegeAlbert Camus · 3 passages
  6. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  8. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  9. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  10. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 373 passages
  11. Dhammapada: Verses on the DhammaSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 17 passages
  12. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  13. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  14. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  15. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  16. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  17. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  18. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  19. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  20. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  21. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  22. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  23. Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  24. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  25. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  26. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  27. On FateCicero · 49 passages
  28. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  29. On Old AgeCicero · 0 passages
  30. On the OratorCicero · 0 passages