FREEDOM Whose definition are we following?
Feb 10, 2020
3 minutes
—by Prof Gerrie Bester
If you were to ask people in today’s world what the most important element of a country’s constitution should be, or what they would regard as the basic foundation of human rights, you would probably hear the same answer, over and over again – freedom. What is the definition of freedom though? Or perhaps we should ask – who’s definition of freedom do we use?
Man-made freedom
Our modern world has distorted the concept of freedom.
Terms such as ‘freedom of speech’ justify people
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