Freedom means that the state does not interfere in the choices of the individual. But, if it does not intervene, the state will automatically allow dominant communities with social and economic capital to dominate the marginalized, opined Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud.
He was addressing a virtual meeting on ‘Identity, Person, and Sovereignty: New Paths to Freedom’ at the four-day 36th LA Asia Conference on behalf of the Asia and Pacific Law Society at a private hotel on Saturday.
“It is important to understand the limitations of the historical interpretation of freedom as the absence of government interference in individual actions and decisions,” he said. ‘No knowledge is ideologically neutral and contingent on the intentions of power. “We can observe the transformation in our concept of freedom,” he said.
He opined that ‘although the relationship between state and freedom is widely understood, the task of establishing and explaining the relationship between identity and freedom is incomplete’.
