Comment Re:Protect people from unwholesome content? (Score 1) 115
yes, fine response, but it'd be nice if you could better define inner freedom.
if inner freedom does not depend on circumstance or events, where does it come from?
this is most certainly an idealist orientation of which there are many critics. Marx argues that inner self is derived from material reality, so experience should be structured to provide freedom in order to produce free individuals--thus political freedom is paramount to build this social structure.
conversely, Hegel would say that inner freedom (your term, won't use Hegel's) validates society by finding reason in its form, and that Marx's sort of authoritative structure is no way to possibly run a free society--but again, only political freedom allows individuals to shape society to fit the concept of inner freedom.
both rely on common perception, though, one which the poor beggar and the wealthy tycoon couldn't possibly share, but that inner freedom depends on to conceive and political freedom to form.