notion of freedom
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnotionandfreedom
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notion
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈnəʊ.ʃən/us/ˈnoʊ.ʃən/
a belief ...
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freedom
noun
uk/ˈfriː.dəm/us/ˈfriː.dəm/
the condition or right of being able or allowed to do, say, think, etc. whatever you want to, without being controlled ...
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(Definition ofnotionandfreedomfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The modernnotionoffreedomof the individual has become linked with fundamental ideas about the self and individualism.
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Functionings must be endorsed and voluntarily (or freely) chosen, rather than forced; but no hyperactivenotionoffreedomas control is involved here.
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But if this is autonomy, then it is a paltrynotionoffreedom.
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Nozick's theory is based on anotionoffreedomas non-interference by other agents.
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Sen himself gives thenotionoffreedompride of place.
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I am a liberal and am virulently attached to thisnotionoffreedom, free choice and free will.
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I ask them to think again about personal liberty and thenotionoffreedom.
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Theirnotionoffreedomfor the working classes is compulsory labour.
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We understand full well thenotionoffreedomof contract, the equality of bargaining and so on, but one must look at supply and demand.
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Then the court goes on to recall that somenotionoffreedomof choice must obviously inhere in the right to associate.
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Historically, we have been blessed in this country by thenotionoffreedom.
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Kant argues that thisnotionoffreedomcan not be derived from our experience.
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He rejects compatibilism because it, like incompatibilism, assumes a single, fundamentalnotionoffreedom.
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The moral dimensions of these questions are associated with ideas linking modernity to notions of freedom.
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Roosevelt proposed anotionoffreedomthat went beyond government non-interference in private lives.
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The compatibilist believes that properly understood, the notions of freedom and determinism can be reconciled.
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Reid held an incompatibilist or libertariannotionoffreedom, holding that we are capable of free actions of which we are the cause, and for which we are morally appraisable.
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