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This 6 page paper looks at John Stuart Mill's ideas about freedom. How it fits into general ideas about freedom and liberty in society today is the focus of this paper. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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freedom for granted. They are free to vote, but only half of the citizens make it to the voting booths. They are free to pursue any line of work and
they have the opportunity to participate in government. Yet, many people live on government assistance instead. Freedoms in the U.S. are vast and many people are envious of the freedoms
Americans have. Of course, there is another side to the story. As Conner Oberst rails in Landlocked Blues," If youre still free start running away" there is a sense that
people really are not free. They can be drafted. Their lives can be hijacked by other countries. Rousseaus idea that men are born free but everywhere they are in chains
also adds to the notion that men are not free at all. During the 1960s, Janis Joplin claimed that "freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose" in
her song Me and Bobby McGee, and this is yet another take on this thing known as freedom. The idea that people can be free while living in
a society of laws seems to be a contradiction, but John Stuart Mill did believe in liberty and freedom and in fact, in his infamous work On Liberty, he relays
that idea. Joplins idea is quite a philosophical, intangible view of freedom as it suggests that one is free only without attachment to the material world. There are other
views of freedom. When speaking of freedom today, most take the political view which is that people are free when they are not living in a fascist country or controlled
by an authoritarian government. Of course, even in what is construed as the "free" world, people cannot just do as they like. They cannot run in their back yards naked.
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