My definition of freedom after reading Hannah Arendt's article

 

Hannah Arendt who regards freedom as something that cannot be enjoyed individually as an inner freedom argue the liberty and freedom have different meanings. While the term liberty can be used as any kind of unencumbered things and ideas, the term freedom can be only used if it refers political meaning in the sense of participating public sphere.

 

Freedom is not a notion which an individual can practice in his or her inner world. It cannot be practiced as an inner will, or as a way of being rescued from the real world for the sake of spiritual salvation. Also, it cannot be identified with the idea that human beings cannot be free unless they are independent of what goes on in the world of human affairs. Rather, freedom, is a notion which can be exercised in a public place. It can be constructed and be exercised in political area. Freedom, develops when it is not hidden but appears in a worldly space. In other words, freedom can only fulfil its meaning in public life under the idea of togetherness.

understandings of freedom presuppose and apply to autonomous individual regardless of the fact that the individual is alone or in a collectivity. An autonomous self cannot exercise real freedom, since it aims at realizing its own freedom. the notion of freedom can be best described in terms of whether it constructs the political in the public realm or not.

In the modern world a public sphere which includes every person indiscriminately, in which people participate equally regardless of their economic and social status, does not exist. People participate in their own public spheres which they share with others of similar social standing. That is, a religious person, an atheist person, etc. rarely come together to discuss a common issue in modern societies. There is a strong connection between freedom and politics. Freedom makes sense when the concept of freedom from the inner world of the individual has become a universal public sphere.