Understandings of freedom and Rawls' attitude

Abstract

The article deals with the determination of human beings as the essentially free beings. In the introductory part the mutually different definitions of freedom, and the denials that human beings are free beings at all, are indicated. In the first part the basically contexts of the mutually different definitions of freedom, and the basically contexts of refutations that human beings are free beings at all, are indicated. In the second part the Rawls’ attitude as well as Kantian interpretation of his attitude is indicated. In the third part counter argumentations were made with regards to skeptical refutations. In the fourth part the possibilities of Rawlsian criticism with regards to alternative conceptions of freedom are established. In the conclusive part the theoretical (social and ethical) superiority of the definition of freedom as the possibility of choice in narrow connection with the moral responsibility is affirmed.