04/07/2021 - Questions 16-20
Question 16: Can there be liberty apart from equality and perhaps apart from fraternity? I must admit, I did look up the definition of liberty before writing this entry because I wanted to make sure that I understood exactly what Barbara was asking. "The state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views" is the first listed definition while "the power or scope to act as one pleases" is the second. When I was a child, and learning about the history of the United States for the first time, liberty only had one meaning: the second definition. It wasn't until I got to high school, or maybe even university if we are being honest before I considered the other meaning, and the one that the founding father's actually intended to speak about: the first definition. In any case, both of those definitions assume that there is some society to be acting against, or protected from. T...
