Patterson, Foner, And King's Typological Analysis Of Freedom

Patterson, Foner, and King all describe their typological analysis of Freedom in three uniquely different ways.

Patterson pinpoints three different variations of freedom. Personal freedom is defined as giving a person a sense that, in one aspect, he or she is not forced or controlled by another person into doing something preferred. In addition, within another aspect, one can do as one pleases within limits of that other person wish to do the same. Patterson refers to Sovereignal or organic freedom as basically the authority to act as one pleases, without respect for others, or simply the capacity to enforce one’s will on another. Civic freedom is defined as the capacity of adult members of a community to partake in its life and authority. (Walton Jr & Smith, 2015)

Foner argues four philosophies of freedom. He favors the term “rights” a well-recognized word by the nation’s leaders on the eve of the Civil War. The natural rights were rights or freedoms inherited within humanity. Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence regarded natural rights as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Civil rights can be defined as equality of management under the law, which is perceived as critical to the protection of natural rights. Political rights include the

Liberal freedom is the absence of subjective legal or institutional restraints on the individual, containing the idea that all citizens are to be treated equally. Freedom as self-government involves an assumed individual state of independence, self-determination, superiority, and self-confidence. Participatory freedom includes the right to the individual to partake fully in the political process. Collective deliverance is agreed as the liberation of a group from outside control-from imprisonment, bondage, or domination. (Walton Jr & Smith,