Test Your Knowledge on Freedom

Study Notes

Liberty means acting within one's rights, while license is the abuse of freedom.
John Stuart Mill's Harm Principle states that power can only be exercised to prevent harm to others.
Negative freedom is an area where one can act unobstructed by others, while positive freedom is being one's own master.
Toleration implies a refusal to interfere with the behavior or beliefs of others, while intolerance is a refusal to accept the actions, views, or beliefs of others.
John Locke defended freedom of religious conscience, but believed that religion could be constrained if it threatened order.
Social contracts theory asserts that government exists only by the consent of the people to protect basic rights and promote the common good.
Toleration should be limited as it can become excessive, particularly in relation to abusive or damaging actions.
Hitler and the German Nazis opposed the Weimar Republic's liberal-democratic values.
Liberation movements and goals have been increasingly popular since the 1960s.
Liberation theology has a quasi-religious aspect and roots in political millenarianism.