First of all, ideas about liberty of Native Americans are the premises of European Enlightenment. Early Europeans defined liberty as freedom of whole communities. They considered freedom as an intangible thing people can get after being released from the domination of other groups or parties. In contrast, Native Americans’ ideas were different from theirs. They realized “personal liberty” was a key factor to understand deeply the concept of liberty. The Native Americans had personal liberty when their community had …show more content…
The anthropologist Lahontan used the word "anarchy” from Greek to describe those communities. It was the evidence that early Europeans, especially Greek had thought about this community model before but they had not followed it. After those ideas were reviewed through many famous books and plays, Europeans knew more about personal liberty and how to make the society run well. Many people started thinking about new ideas which were different. Thinkers applied the ideas of Indians’ liberty the European Enlightenment which changed the socio-political climate of the Old World. From now on, thanks to Native Americans, the Europeans understood more about the definition of freedom. They planned to have revolutionary changes which would abolish monarchy, corrupted churches and obsession with …show more content…
It can be recognized as a human needs and right. For speeches, they are free to express their ideas and thoughts by verbal or written ways. For actions, people can do anything they want. For example, in America today, gay people can come out easily, it is a part of their liberty. However, liberty is the intangible thing which cannot be measured. How do people know how liberal they can be? This question is the remaining part of my definition of liberty. Liberty should be limited by reasonable laws and moral senses. Actually, people cannot do everything without limitation. All things must be done without breaking the laws or violating the moral sense. More specifically, everyone’s lives are protected by the government. No one can kill others just because she or he feels like doing it. In some situations, freedom is not covered by the current laws or rules, but it is depended by people’s moral sense. No policeman can catch a person who likes swearing as his habit because he has his freedom of speech. However, in some points, that is not the right thing to