| The word "freedom" entered very early into the ordinary languages of Western countries. This implied sooner or later a disconnection of the word itself from severl technical terms belonging to the legal or to the political language of these countries. Finally, in the past hundred years the word "freedom" seems to have begun to float unanchored ... Semantic changes have been introduced at will by a number of different people in different places. Many new meanings have been proposed by philosophers that are at variance with the meanings already accepted in the ordinary languages of the West. Shrewd people have tried to exploit the favourable connotations of this word in order to persuade others to change their corresponding ways of behaving into new and even contrary ones. Confusions arose whose number and gravity have increased as the various uses of the word "freedom" in pilosophy, economics, politica, morality and so on, have become more numerous and serious |
| Leoni, Bruno |
| Freedom and the Law |
| 1961 , p. 35 |
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