Czy wolność człowieka jest absolutna? Punkt widzenia liberalizmu klasycznego

Abstract

The paper concerns the idea of freedom and her limits in the thought of the some representatives of classical liberalism. The paper has three parts: 1) freedom as a feature of the personality and her different forms (personal and social, positive and negative); 2) ideas if the English philosophers (T. Hobbes, J. Locke, D. Hume, J.S. Milli); 3) ideas of the French philosophers (Ch. Montesquieu, J.J. Rousseau, A. De Tocqueville). According to this thinkers human freedom is not a absolute value but has many limits (social contract, law, customs, religion and ethics).