CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Public Good
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Freedom is a mode of power power being a simple idea which is given to us through sensation as well as through reflexion. Active power is easily observable in the functioning of the mind begins to interrupt the movement of a part of the body or in the thinking of an idea. Freedom power organizing one"s thoughts and movements. Errors of judgement lead men fascinated by the proximity of present pleasures and pains to wrong use of their freedom. Negative intervention of our freedom, born from the destination of man to eternal happiness allows our judgement to choose the better or the more reasonable. Political freedom natural freedom in which men live in the state of nature is precisely the state in which each man disposes of his power of liberty according to his own will and pleasure. Property is the external manifestation of freedom.