LIBERTY versus FREEDOM

For me, as for William Faulkner, liberty comprises and transcends the notion of freedom.

Freedom depends on our quotidian choices whereas liberty allows us to make life-choices.

We are free to choose the colours of our clothes, the choice of strolling by a park near

our home or in the botanical gardens of the city where we live. Liberty allows us to choose

our political commitments, our judgment of the society in which we live and grow,

our criticism of its ethics, the manner in which we would like to contribute to its

development albeit partially. I think that the domain in which the notion of freedom

meets that of liberty is solely personal and depends on our judgement of good and evil according to our personality and life-experience, what we choose to inflict

upon ourselves or what we wish to avoid to preserve our integrity as individuals.