The words "freedom" and "liberty" are often used in a synonymous fashion, but given the different roots I wonder if one can see differences between them.
I recall reading once - James Stokesbury's "A Short History of World War II" as I recall - that "freedom" was derived from "free doom", as in, the means to choose how one's life ends. I'm not entirely certain of the accuracy of this, but it would seem to contrast from "liberty" and the more direct connotations of being free from restraints. Yet the state of being "free" is often referred to as "freedom", and so we come back around.
Are the two synonymous, or are there differences in meaning, exercise, connotation, that mark the two?
I recall reading once - James Stokesbury's "A Short History of World War II" as I recall - that "freedom" was derived from "free doom", as in, the means to choose how one's life ends. I'm not entirely certain of the accuracy of this, but it would seem to contrast from "liberty" and the more direct connotations of being free from restraints. Yet the state of being "free" is often referred to as "freedom", and so we come back around.
Are the two synonymous, or are there differences in meaning, exercise, connotation, that mark the two?