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Contextual freedom: Absoluteness versus relativity of freedom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2013

Farzaneh Pahlavan  and
Ali Amirrezvani
Farzaneh Pahlavan
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Psychologie des Menaces sociales et environnementales, Institut de Psychologie, Université Paris Descartes, Boulogne-Billancourt, 92774, France. farzaneh.pahlavan@parisdescartes.frhttp://recherche.parisdescartes.fr/LPM/Notre-equipe/Enseignants-Chercheurs/Pahlavan-Farzaneh-Pr
Ali Amirrezvani
Affiliation:
Bio-Optical Oceanography Laboratory, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR 00681. ali.amirrezvani@upr.eduhttp://bio-optics.uprm.edu/people.html
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Abstract

Our commentary is focused on the idea that “freedom” takes on its full significance whenever its relativistic nature, in the short- and long terms, is taken into account. Given the transformations brought about by “globalization,” application of a general model of freedom based on ecological-economic factors clearly seems to be rather untimely. We examine this idea through egocentric and ethnocentric views of the social and environmental analyses of “freedom.”

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 5 , October 2013 , pp. 498 - 499
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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