Author(s)

Xijun Wang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Ideological and Political Theory Department, Changsha Vocational & Technical College, Changsha, Hunan 410217, China

Corresponding Author

Xijun Wang

ABSTRACT

By taking the "first-order freedom" of "willfulness" as the logical basis and constraints contradictory to freedom as the classification basis, three dimensions of freedom can be considered and discussed, namely the dimension of constraints imposed by others, the dimension of constraints imposed by personal ability and desire, the dimension of constraints imposed by objective inevitability. The freedom we pursue is not to break away from any social constraints, but to avoid arbitrary coercion from others as much as possible; it is not to pursue a "natural state" that dispels socialization, but to continuously develop our social capabilities and pursue high-level needs to expand the freedom domain; it is not to arrogantly control objective inevitability, but to pursue scientific truth and act according to the laws by understanding, respecting, and conforming to objective laws.

KEYWORDS

freedom; other constraint; inevitability; ability

CITE THIS PAPER

Xijun Wang, On the Three Dimensions of Freedom. Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2022) Vol. 4: 25-35. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2022.040304.

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