AN EXAMINATION ON FREE, FREEDOM AND LIBERTY AS ROOT USAGES OF NEGATIVE FREEDOM AND POSITIVE FREEDOM -What can be said about the conceptual analysis and etymology of free, freedom and liberty?-

Freedom is one of the central values for human life. The paper has tried to examine the etymological roots of the words indicating freedom and liberty in a number of Indo-European languages and investigate the influences of etymological roots of these words on the conceptual usages. Furthermore, two appearing concepts, namely, negative freedom and positive freedom shall be traced on the extension of words, namely freedom and liberty. The essay will assert that while the word of liberty, which is used in English, has implied the concept of negative freedom within the framework of etymological root and the scope of usage, the word of freedom has pointed at the concept of positive freedom from the point of view of the etymological root and the scope of usage