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The Conflict Between Classical and Contemporary Definitions of Freedom
i think for a lot of classical thinkers, freedom came from discipline and from placing yourself in an order that allowed you to function as part of a society. Freedom has become re defined doing what you feel like doing, whenever you feel likedoing it - which is kind of suckso. And the more this conception of freedom gets raified by am the elite, the harder it's going to be to even imagine ouan ov the a, that aristotelian freedom of eno. It really dredges up problems with the universalist outlook,. suggest that different life style modes might work for different people.