Adler notes (146) that people have the circumstantial freedom to do what one pleases, within limits. That is, without infringing the freedom of others. This is a freedom of coercion, constraint and duress and the freedom to act as one wishes. "It is not, however, a freedom from having one's conduct regulated by the prescriptions and proscriptions of law." It is not true, as Mill and Jefferson noted, that the less government the freer one is. Rather, he says, he agrees with Locke who says that much of conduct cannot be regulated by law, regardless of how massive the regulation is. Meanwhile, the virtuous person can do what he/she

As Aristotle states: "The virtuous man does freely what the criminal does only from fear of the law-fear of its coercive force and of the punishment that may result from violating the law. The criminal, however, does not suffer any loss of liberty when he refrains from breaking the law..." (147).

Someone may not particularly like the laws that have been passed by the majority, but when conforming it is done without any loss of political liberty. If it is a just law, no freedom is lost at all (148).

Freire is also committed to democracy and any extreme of political thought that keeps people from freedom. As with Adler, concern for democracy and the democratic process carries assumptions about what it is to be human.

However, if these individuals can get over this hurdle, the power they gain is so much greater because they have recognized and understood the injustices against them, overcome the adversity, and then, with this new power, acted to

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