An Analysis On The Dilemma Of The Negative Freedom Perspective And Its Solutions

Thinking about the freedom , should include the following two aspects:If first says from the time in the natural angle,non-domination is the first in the nature essential condition; If first says from the logic in the natural angle, the freedom displays for avoiding interference , avoiding coercion. The key to understand the freedom lies in which one of the above two aspects is sound .the writer of this paper agree with the liberalist's definition: take free from……as the freedom's definition, because of first initiates from the time in the natural angle is the freedom condition but non- freedom itself, has from the logic first the freedom which understood in the natural angle is only freedom itself. But these two aspects freedom are indispensable regarding the understanding, because the freedom condition has decided the freedom effective degree.As to the relation between Right and freedom, Right does not emerge as the necessary and sufficient condition for the realization of freedom, despite Right is actually the definition of freedom. That is because the political society is what human beings live in and calls for the justice, given the scarcity of the social material resources. In the society like this, to promote freedom, contributions made by the public power are needed, so that the ideal freedom could develop into the substantial one.In the eyes of liberalist, freedom simply means the pure freedom principle of being free from interference and coercion. This principle, however, will belie the problems posed by historical environment in which freedom is realised, that is to say, the ideal model of being from interference and coercion is restricted by specific historical conditions, which indeed constitute a testing stone for the said liberal freedom principle of being free from interference and coercion. Here, therefore, requires the fully understanding of freedom. We should think about freedom upon the mirror of combination of the specific individual and ideal freedom principles, and integrate the ideal model of freedom with its actual conditions, i.e., the understanding of freedom should base on integration of the core of freedom-free from interference and coercion-and the specific historical conditions confronted a individual. Bearing this in mind, we can say that freedom is not always stands opposed to public power and the promotion of individual freedom calls for the latter's effective. Public power is not only responsible for facilitating individual freedom, it also assume its public functions as to promoting for the freedom-wanted groups.To realize the integrity of individual freedom, we could not at any event resort to autocracy but to democracy. There are essential connections between freedom and democracy. It is the democracy that makes the realization of freedom possible and come true, its core is the unceasing pursue for the freedom conditions by the specific individual lives in the political community, through which the individual could enjoy freedom in social life.In sum, the writer of this paper held: If the political life is seen as the context of social life, and the diversity as the surface of the world we live, we could get a context- presentment model, which provide a new theoretical approach to think about freedom, since it has uncovered that Right is not the necessary and sufficient conditions for realization of freedom, which calls for effective contribution made by public power; Furthermore, the new model also gives us a sound start-point to explore the relations between freedom and democracy. Democracy is inevitably the logic succession of freedom, in which what individual pursues is the conditions-such as being free from interference and scarcity, etc.- and then individual could enjoy freedom in social life. Through the above uncoverings, we can get the full understanding of freedom.