Concordia University Irvine What Is Freedom and Negative Freedom Paper

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Instructions:

For this assignment, you will be writing a literary research paper that allows you to:

  1. develop your owndefinition of freedom(this definition can be reflected throughone or more of the texts, and it does not need to be the final philosophical word on“freedom”) and,
  2. apply that definition to two of the texts studied this semester, one of which will bea title from the required texts below. The work you analyzed in your previous paper is excluded from this assignment.

This will be a comparison paperusing your definition of freedomand a common theme between the two texts.

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  • ● You will support your thesis with 4 peer-reviewed scholarly articles.
  • ● You are encouraged to utilize the Writing Center or tutoring center in the drafting stages.
  • ● We will be reviewing your Paper Proposalbased on this prompt during our one-on-onetutorials in which you will review the use of literary sources, thesis and draft development, and the elements of literary argumentation.
  • ● Choose one of the following titles:Required Text Options (pair up with any other required text this semester):
    • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
    • ● “The Grand Inquisitor,” or● Homegoing(Note: Again, you may not write about the same text that you wrote about in your first major paper.)
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Paper Proposal Due: Final Paper Due: Points:
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6-8 pages
On day of Tutorial, but not later than April 8 by 11:59pm April 22 by 11:59pm on Bb
250pts
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Freedom: A Powerful Word
Currently, there are one hundred and ninety-five countries in the world. All these
countries are characterized by different customs, cultures, and traditions. In some countries, such
as Libya, Burma, Turkmenistan, and North Korea, freedom of press and freedom of speech is a
right that citizens do not enjoy. Conversely, unlike these countries, the United States profoundly
focuses on the freedoms and rights of citizens through the Bill of Rights, which ensures that
citizens will enjoy the freedom of press and freedom of speech to the greatest extent. At first
glance, “freedom” is a word that sounds simple; however, to many, it is a powerful and relished
word. “Freedom” is a word that laid the foundation for the establishment of an entire country, a
word that ensures that individuals’ constitutional and inalienable rights are not violated. But, is
there a single definition of freedom? If one asks a thousand individuals to define freedom, he or
she will receive a thousand different definitions because everyone has their own definition of
freedom. Although there is no clear definition of freedom, I believe that freedom is a state of
being at liberty – a state of not being enslaved or imprisoned – being free from any form of
oppression.
As asserted by Orlando Patterson, freedom has three dimensions: civic, sovereignal, and
personal. Patterson describes civic freedom as the ability of individuals to take part in public life,

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particularly governance. He describes sovereignal freedom as the power to act as one pleases,
irrespective of the desires of other individuals. And he describes personal freedom as the ability
to acts as one wishes, as well as the absence of coercion (Patterson 3-5). In certain
circumstances, particularly when discussions are centered on political freedoms, “freedom” and
“liberty” are used interchangeably, as is the case in Isaiah Berlin’s book titled Two Concepts of
Liberty. Although they are used interchangeably, these words do not hold the same meaning.
Liberty refers to the absence of tyrannical, despotic, or arbitrary restrains, whereas freedom is
mainly, if not entirely, the ability to act and do as one pleases.
Isaiah Berlin distinguished between two concepts of freedom: positive freedom and
negative freedom. As defined by Berlin, positive freedom is the wish on the part of a person to
be his or her own master. Berlin explains, “I wish my life...


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