Status Updates From On Freedom

“Defining freedom is a different sort of ambition from defending it. Interrogate my former self; I interrogate others; and others interrogate me. The method is part of the answer: there may be truth about freedom, but we will not get it in isolation or by deduction. Freedom is positive; getting words around it, like living it, is an act of creation.”

Five forms of freedom create world where people act on values:
Sovereignty - learned capacity to make choices
Unpredictability -power to adapt physical regularities to personal purposes
Mobility
Factuality
Solidarity - recognition that freedom is for everyone

Preface, p. xv:
“Freedom is about knowing what we value and bringing it to life. So it depends on what we can do - and that, in turn, depends on others, people we know and people we don’t.”