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-Milton Friedman maintains that the freedom to choose, or libertarian freedom, constitutes the basis of a vibrant capitalist society. He argues that such economic freedom entails the individual and voluntary exchange of goods

-Ethical freedom likewise offers a different perspective on egalitarian freedom, showing that it is an integral aspect of both economics and theology. Preference economists are right that egalitarian freedom risks the coercion of people's ethical freedom. Berlin describes how egalitarian freedom pushes people to become their "real" selves

-But he fears it allows people to be manipulated by others who claim to be able to help them achieve their real selves. "A positive conception of freedom," in Schweiker's words, "can lead to coercion when those in power believe their idea of the 'true self' ought to be forced on others for the sake of the good of those others-the forms of moral tyranny exercised by Church, State, and traditional moral authorities against which liberal theorists reacted"

-The point, though, is that ethical freedom is a genuinely different kind of freedom from the other two that can mediate and use the other two to pursue better paths forward.

-It may be an exercise in the kind of moral action that is rooted in a multidimensional experience of freedom.