Freedom as Discourse in Western Tradition

Freedom is an abstract concept that is more understandable with its constraints. Freedom within the fabric of the Socratic philosophy was just a virtue. In the Christian era, at first, it had a theosophical meaning and then in context of Scholastic era changed, as servant of God. Then in the modern age, it reduced as security and possessive individualism. Analyzing freedom as a discourse, this article shows why and how each concept of freedom has its proper context in history and political philosophy; ancient and modern. Therefore, the unity and uncontested attitude is essentially unconscious and non-historical. By a comparative and analytical method, this article pursues freedom as a discourse through its observation in ancient and modern in western political philosophy, and consequently shows that why and how freedom is a discourse and originally has its own philosophical and historical context; specifically fabricated for its proper society, and is not necessarily comparable in the general form.