Balancing Liberty And Social Order

Liberty is a liberal catchword born during the great intellectual ferment. Positive liberty is rooted in popular sovereignty which allows people to choose their own way of life and enables them to exercise their free will for wellbeing. The negative liberty presupposes a condition without dependence, constraints and impediments to the exercise of their intelligence and will. Knowing self can help one to control instinct, impulse and passion that tend to dominate others, not liberate them and hone inner vigilance which is an essential condition for the exercise of liberty. Both positive and negative liberties spell upon the frame of social justice supposing the distribution of equality and a full life for all Nepalis. When justice is denied, the poor suffer from the retreat of their liberty and the ignorant are sacrificed each day by the tricks of clever elites.