Also called “liberty”. Man’s relation to the objective world, breaking free from one’s chains and achieving emancipation. Freedom is not doing as one pleases, but subject to the constraints and limitations of the objective world. Man has the nature of pursuing emancipation, but man is a social animal; man himself and one’s activity are subject to the constraints of social conditions, and the degree to which man obtains freedom is limited by the development of the productive forces and the relations of production at the time. Freedom has two meanings, i.e., freedom in the philosophical sense and freedom in the political sense…
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