Overview

In the philosophical tradition, the question of freedom has been one of the most erected and most discussed themes; this is undeniable. Until we reached the Hegelian theory of freedom, the conception of freedom was, from its classical archetype, linked to a political morality - as we see in the ancient Greek world - to an understanding of freedom based on a subjective element, as proposed by the moderns. At the apex of German idealism, Hegel (1770 - 1831) proposed one of the most striking theories of freedom, and even one of the most original, since its purpose is to roughly unite the two conceptions indicated above. A type of freedom that apprehends not only a subjective freedom - as proposed by his predecessors in modernity - but also a freedom linked to political morality - as in the ancient Greeks.