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INTRODUCTION
1. The urgency of the problem of freedom
Freedom as a central category of philosophy
Transformation of the concept in modernity
Freedom in a Technological Society
2. The problem of uncertainty of the concept
Polysemia of the term “freedom”
Difference between philosophical and everyday meanings
Methodological difficulties of analysis
3. Goals and objectives of the study
Clarification of the concept of freedom
Identification of internal contradictions
Prepare for Safety Linkage Analysis
4. Methodology
Analytical approach
Historical and philosophical analysis
Conceptual reconstruction
5. Volume structure

CHAPTER 1. CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF FREEDOM          
1.1. Freedom as a philosophical problem
Freedom as a fundamental question of human existence
Freedom and consciousness
Freedom as a condition of responsibility
1.2. Language analysis of the concept
Etymology of the term
Distinction between “freedom,” “will,” “autonomy”
Translation and conceptual distortion problem
1.3. Freedom as descriptive and normative category
Freedom as fact
Freedom as value
Contradiction between description and prescription
1.4. Freedom and autonomy
Subject’s self-legislation
Rationality and freedom
Limitations of autonomy
1.5. Freedom and will
Concept of will
Freedom as a property of will
The problem of weakness of will (acrasia)
1.6. Minimum freedom conditions
Mindfulness
Choice
Lack of coercion

CHAPTER 2. NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE FREEDOM                      
2.1. Freedom as a lack of intervention
Formula “freedom from”
Restrictions through external influence
Political implications
2.2. Freedom as self-realization
Formula “freedom for”
Developing abilities
Freedom as achievement
2.3. Historical dichotomy formation
Development in Modern Times
Formalization in modern philosophy
2.4. Criticism of dichotomy
Lack of a binary approach
Mixed forms of freedom
Conceptual intersections
2.5. Modern interpretations
Advanced Freedom Models
Freedom as ability
Freedom as access to opportunities
2.6. Practical implications of the difference
Politics and law
Social policy
Economic aspects

CHAPTER 3. FREEDOM AND DETERMINISM                                 
3.1. Causality problem
Causality and explanation
Universality of causal relationships
Freedom as an exception or part of causality
3.2. Hard determinism
Denial of freedom
Arguments for predestination
Investigations for responsibility
3.3. Compatibilism
Compatibility of freedom and determinism
Freedom as an action without external coercion
Approach limitations
3.4. Libertarian theories
Freedom as non-determinism
The problem of chance
Agent causality
3.5. Neuroscientific challenge
Decision making experiments
Freedom as an after-the-fact interpretation
Criticism of reductionism
3.6. Responsibility in conditions of determinism
Moral responsibility
Punishment and guilt
The Practical Necessity of Freedom

CHAPTER 4. INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FREEDOM                            
4.1. Inner freedom
Freedom of thought
Emotional independence
Self-checking
4.2. Psychological limitations
Desires and addictions
Social conditioning
Cognitive biases
4.3. External freedom
Policy and legal framework
Social institutions
Economic constraints
4.4. Manipulation and covert coercion
Promotion
Social pressure
Algorithmic influence
4.5. Freedom and identity
Forming a self
Social role
Authenticity
4.6. Conflict of internal and external freedom
Internal freedom under external coercion
The illusion of freedom with an internal dependency

CHAPTER 5. HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS     
5.1. Ancient philosophy
Freedom as self-control
Freedom and reason
Political dimension
5.2. Medieval philosophy
Freedom and divine predestination
Free will and sin
Theological limitations
5.3. Philosophy of the New Age
Individualism
Rationalism and empiricism
Freedom and law
5.4. German classical philosophy
Subject autonomy
Freedom as a moral law
Dialectics of freedom
5.5. XIX-XX centuries
Existentialism
Marxism
Psychoanalysis
5.6. Modern theories
Analytical philosophy
Political philosophy
Interdisciplinary approaches

CHAPTER 6. FREEDOM AS A SOCIAL INSTITUTION                   
6.1. Freedom and law
Legal guarantees
Restrictions and sanctions
Formalizing freedom
6.2. Freedom and equality
Conflict and interconnection
Formal and actual equality
Social justice
6.3. Institutional conditions of freedom
Democracy
Separation of powers
Civil rights
6.4. The economic dimension of freedom
Material conditions
Market and freedom
Inequality of opportunity
6.5. Restrictions on freedom
Legal restrictions
Excessive control
Legitimacy of restrictions

Introduction
• Safety as a fundamental problem of human existence
• Historical shift: from physical survival to integrated safety
• Safety in the structure of human needs (biological, social, symbolic levels)
• Paradox: the more safety means – the higher the feeling of vulnerability
Methodological difficulties:
• Interdisciplinarity of the concept (philosophy, sociology, politics, psychology)
• Blurring and contextuality of the term
• The problem of measurability of safety
• Normative vs. descriptiveness
Connection with the theme of freedom:
• Safety as a condition of freedom
• Safety as its limitation
• Dialectical tension: freedom ↔ safety
• Introduction of a key conflict of the entire series

Chapter 1. Safety determination
1.1. Safety as Base Category
• Ontological safety status
• Safety as threat denial
• Minimum and maximum safety
• Safety as a process, not a state
1.2. Safety typology
• Physical (bodily)
• Economic
• Political
• Existential
• Information
• Environmental
• Individual vs. collective safety
• Local vs. global
1.3. Objective and subjective safety
• Real threats vs. threat perception
• Safety psychology
• Cognitive distortions (overestimation of rare risks)
• Media and social environment effect
• Gap between statistics and experiences
1.4. Risk and threat
• The difference between risk and threat
• Managed and unmanaged risks
• Probability vs. catastrophic
• Risk as the basis of modern rationality
• The concept of a “risk society”

Chapter 2. Existential safety measurement
2.1. Fear as a foundation
• Fear as a basic emotion
• Biological function of fear
• Fear as a source of social institutions
• Culture of fear
2.2. Uncertainty and anxiety
• The difference between fear and anxiety
• Anxiety as a reaction to uncertainty
• Modernity as an increase in uncertainty
• Existential vulnerability
2.3. Safety and meaning
• Safety as a condition for a meaningful life
• Or as an obstacle to authenticity
• Connection with the search for meaning
• The role of risk in the formation of identity
2.4. Illusion of safety
• Psychological mechanisms of the safety illusion
• Symbolic protection (rituals, ideologies)
• Comfort as a surrogate for safety
• Collapse of illusions (crises, disasters)

Chapter 3. Political philosophy of safety
3.1. State and violence
• The emergence of the state as a response to a threat
• Violence as a tool for ensuring order
• Paradox: protection through coercion
3.2. Legitimacy of power
• Safety as a source of legitimacy
• Social contract
• Exchange of freedom for safety
• Crisis of trust in institutions
3.3. Coercive monopoly
• Centralization of violence
• Police, army, intelligence agencies
• Increased powers in crises
• Danger of abuse
3.4. Safety as an excuse for power
• Rhetoric of threats
• “State of emergency” as the norm
• Restriction of rights under the pretext of safety
• Politics of fear

Chapter 4. Safety social constructions
4.1. Safety as discourse
• Safety concept design
• Who determines what is dangerous
• Threat language
4.2. Production of threats
• Political and media threat-making
• Enemies and “others
” • Moral scares
• Institutionalization of fear

4.3. Media and fear
• Media role in increasing anxiety
• Constant crisis effect
• Threat visualization
• Algorithms and fear
4.4. Collective representations
• Social threat memory
• Cultural threat scenarios
• Safety mythology
• Anxiety normalization

Chapter 5. Safety economics
5.1. Safety as a resource
• Safety as an economic value
• Investment in safety
• Safety as a competitive advantage
5.2. Safety industry
• Private safety structures
• Military industrial complex
• Digital safety as a market
• Safety sector growth
5.3. Inequality and safety
• Access to safety as a privilege
• Spatial segregation (ghettos, gated communities)
• Vulnerability of marginalized groups
• Safety of rich vs. safety of poor
5.4. Privatizing safety
• Reducing the role of the state
• Transferring functions to private entities
• Individualization of responsibility
• Risks of commercialization

Chapter 6. Technology and safety
6.1. Supervision and control
• Surveillance technologies
• Panopticon in the digital age
• Self-monitoring as a result of observability
6.2. Algorithmic control
• Algorithm decision making
• Predictive safety
• Transparency issue
• Algorithmic discrimination
6.3. Cyber safety
• New types of threats
• Vulnerability of digital systems
• States vs. hackers
• Information wars
6.4. Technological protection paradox
• More technologies – more vulnerabilities
• Dependence on infrastructure
• Illusion of control
• Technology as a source of new risks

Conclusion
•Safety as dynamic, unstable category
•Impossibility of absolute safety
•Permanent threat production
•Balancing risk and control
•The constant contradiction between Freedom and Safety

Introduction
• Conflict of freedom and safety as a central issue modern philosophy and politics
• From the illusion of compatibility to the recognition of structural stress
• Why this conflict is escalating in late modern times
The wording of the main conflict:
• Freedom as the absence of coercion vs. safety as control and restriction
• Individual freedom vs. collective safety
• Short-term safety vs. long-term freedom
• Question: what is primary – protection or autonomy?
Theoretical framework:
• Negative and positive freedom
• Safety as risk minimization
• Conflict as inevitable (not accidental)
• Method of analysis: philosophical, political, sociological

Chapter 1. Conflict structure 
1.1. Logical incompatibility?
• Freedom as a space of uncertainty
• Safety as a desire for predictability
• Contradiction: control destroys freedom
• Is it possible to synthesize them or is it an antinomy
• Weak and strong versions of conflict
1.2. Historical examples
• Ancient societies: safety through order
• Modern: freedom as a political ideal
• Crisis periods (wars, terrorism, epidemics)
• Expansion of power in emergency situations
• Reversibility of restrictions: myth or reality
1.3. Conflict as an institutional phenomenon
• Institutions as mediators between freedom and safety
• Laws, courts, police
• Safety bureaucratization
• Stabilizing conflict through procedures
• Institutional traps

Chapter 2. Social contract 
2.1. Basis of contract
• The idea of giving up part of freedom
• Safety as a motive for unification
• Rationality of the contract
• Problem of initial consent
2.2. Voluntariness and coercion
• Reality of consent: myth or construct
• Coercion as a hidden basis of contract
• Socialization as a form of imposed consent
• Fear as a legitimization mechanism
2.3. Freedom delegation boundaries
• What cannot be delegated
• Inviolable rights
• The problem of expanding the powers of the state
• “Creeping” restriction of freedom
• The question of the right to resistance

Chapter 3. Restriction of liberty
3.1. Legitimate restrictions
• When the restriction is justified
• Legitimacy criteria
• Proportionality and necessity
• Temporary vs. permanent restrictions
3.2. Principle of harm
• Restriction of freedom for the sake of preventing harm
• The problem of determining harm
• Individual vs. collective harm
• Expanding the concept of harm
3.3. Preventive measures
• Punishment before action
• Predictive logic
• Suspicion as a basis for intervention
• Risk of criminalization of potential behavior
• Prevention as a threat to freedom

Chapter 4. Safety paradoxes 
4.1. Escalation of control
• Logic of “even more safety”
• Constant expansion of measures
• Inability to stop
• Control as a self-reproducing process
4.2. Self-opening safety
• Safety destroys conditions of freedom
• Loss of trust
• Radicalization as a response to control
• A system that creates its own threats
4.3. Production of threats
• Safety requires threats
• Hazard design
• Fear policy as a tool
• Permanent alarm state
• Safety as a risk industry

Chapter 5. Freedom at Risk 
5.1. Risk as a condition of freedom
• Freedom is impossible without uncertainty
• Risk as a space of choice
• Risk waiver = freedom waiver
• Risk avoidance culture
5.2. Uncertainty management
• Risk rationalization
• Fear of the future
• Attempts at complete control
• Limited prediction
• Living in conditions of incomplete information
5.3. Risk ethics
• Who bears the risk
• Risk sharing in society
• Voluntary vs. imposed risk
• Responsibility for consequences
• Risk and equity

Chapter 6. Critique of modern practices 
6.1. Mass surveillance
• Totality of data collection
• Transparency of the individual
• Erosion of privacy
• Self-censorship
6.2. Restriction of rights
• Expanding exemptions
• Normalizing emergency measures
• Lowering rights standards
• Resiliency of restrictions after crisis
6.3. Biopolicy
• Life and body management
• Population control
• Health as a policy object
• Body as a field of power
• Safety as a management of life processes
6.4 Digital Biopolitics
6.5 Social Ratings and Digital Reputation
6.6 Biometrics and Total Surveillance
6.7 Artificial Intelligence as a Form of Bio-Power
6.8 The Future of Freedom in a Fully Digital Society

Conclusion 
• The conflict of freedom and safety as structurally unrecoverable
• The impossibility of a final balance
• Each society re-solves this conflict
• Historical variability with constant tension

Introduction
• Transition from theoretical conflict to empirical reality
• Modernity as an era of total problematization of safety
• Accelerating change and growing uncertainty
• Technology as the main mediator of freedom and control
Key introduction:
• Safety becomes a daily practice, not an exception
• The line between private and public blurs
• Control becomes decentralized and invisible
• Freedom is transformed, not just limited
Methodological focus:
• Analysis of specific practices
• Interdisciplinary approach (policy, technology, bioethics)
• Shift from the state to network power structures

Chapter 1. Digital Society
1.1. Data and control
• Data as a new form of power
• Data extraction
• Everyday digital transparency
• Behavioral profiling
• Surveillance economics
• User as an object of analysis
1.2. Algorithmic power
• Algorithms as decision-makers
• Invisibility and opacity of algorithms
• Delegation of power to machines
• Predictive behavior management
• Control automation
• Algorithmic discrimination
1.3. Privacy
• Erosion of the private sphere
• Privacy as a right vs. as an illusion
• Voluntary loss of privacy
• Commodification of personal data
• New forms of digital autonomy
• Is privacy possible in a networked society

Chapter 2. Biopolitics and Body
2.1. Controlling life
• Life process management
• Demography as a policy object
• Regulation of fertility, mortality, health
• “Life” as a politicalcategory
• Biologization of safety
2.2. Medicine and power
• Medical institutes as control mechanisms
• Diagnostics as a form of rationing
• Expert power
• Medicalization of everyday life
• Transition from treatment to risk management
2.3. Normalization
• Norm as an instrument of power
• Deviation and control
• Self-regulation through internal standards
• Body as an object of discipline
• Production of a “healthy” subject

Chapter 3. Global threats
3.1. Pandemics
• Pandemic as a model of total threat
• Restriction of movement and rights
• Collective safety vs. individual freedom
• Temporary measures that have become permanent
• Politicization of health
3.2. Terrorism
• Asymmetry of threats
• Invisible enemy
• Permanent state of danger
• Expansion of state powers
• Fear as a political resource
3.3. Climate risks
• Environmental safety
• Long-term threats
• Global interdependence
• Constraints for the future
• Generational conflict
• Sustainability policies

Chapter 4. Risk Society
4.1. Production of risks
• Risks as a product of modernization
• Technologies as a source of threats
• Self-generated nature of risk
• Invisible and deferred threats
4.2. Risk policy
• Managing through fear
• Prioritizing threats
• Expert knowledge and power
• Politicizing uncertainty
• Conflicts of risk interpretations
4.3. Individualization of responsibility
• Transfer of responsibility to the individual
• Risk self-management
• Neoliberal safety logic
• Blame for vulnerability
• Erosion of collective guarantees

Chapter 5. Ethical dilemmas
5.1. Freedom vs life
• Is it permissible to restrict freedom in order to preserve life
• Absoluteness of life as a value
• Conflict of rights
• Tragic elections
• Ethical limits of safety
5.2. Compulsion for good
• Paternalism
• “We know better
” • Enforcement measures (vaccination, restrictions
) • Boundary between care and control
• Legitimization of intervention
5.3. Technology ethics
• AI Ethical Issues
• Autonomous Systems and Responsibility
• Technology Control
• Human vs. Machine in Decision Making
• Digital Control Ethics

Chapter 6. The Future of Freedom
6.1. Post-human scenarios
• Human transformation
• Strengthening the body and consciousness
• Biotechnology and control
• Loss of autonomy
• New forms of inequality
6.2. Artificial intelligence
• AI as a new subject of power
• Automation of society management
• Predictive society
• Loss of human control
• Delegation of moral decisions
6.3. New forms of control
• Decentralized control
• Self-monitoring and internal oversight
• Gamification of behavior
• Digital ratings and reputation
• Invisible governance mechanisms

Conclusion
• Modernity as a radicalization of the conflict of freedom and safety
• Transition from external to internal control
• Normalization of constant risk and surveillance
Key findings:
• Safety becomes total and penetrating
• Freedom transforms into managed autonomy
• The individual becomes both subject and object of control

Introduction
• Transition from analysis to regulatory design
• Why the conflict of freedom and safety cannot simply be “described” – it must be managed
• Limitations of existing models
Key objectives of the volume:
• Compare regulatory approaches
• Identify their hidden premises
• Show their applicability boundaries
• Suggest a dynamic model
Methodological attitudes:
• Normative philosophy vs. political practice
• Universalism vs. contextuality
• Principles vs. procedures
• Balance as a process, not a state

Chapter 1. Liberal model
1.1. Priority of freedom
• Freedom as the highest value
• Negative freedom (freedom from interference)
• Individual as an autonomous subject
• Minimizing coercion
• Risk as a permissible condition of freedom
1.2. Limited state
• The state as a “night watchman”
• Minimum safety functions
• The rule of law
• Protection of rights as the main task
• Distrust of concentration of power
1.3. Criticism
• Inadequate protection of the vulnerable
• Ignoring structural inequalities
• Collective risk problem
• Failure to respond to global threats
• Paradox: freedom of the strong vs. vulnerability of the weak

Chapter 2. Communitarian model
2.1. Commodum publicum
• Community priority
• Safety as a collective value
• Individual’s social roots
• Shared goals and values
2.2. Social responsibility
• Responsibilities to society
• Solidarity
• Legitimacy of restrictions for the common good
• Collective risk management
2.3. Limitations of individualism
• Criticism of atomism
• Majority pressure
• Risk of conformity
• Suppression of minorities
• Danger of “soft” authoritarianism

Chapter 3. Republican Model
3.1. Freedom as nondominance
• Freedom not as a lack of intervention, but as a lack of arbitrariness
• Dominance as a hidden threat
• Institutional forms of addiction
3.2. Civic engagement
• Active role of citizens
• Participation as a guarantee of freedom
• Public sphere
• Democratic control over safety
3.3. Institutional safeguards
• Checks and balances
• Transparency of power
• Accountability of institutions
• Legal restrictions of control
• Protection against abuse

Chapter 4. Technocratic Model
4.1. Control through data
• Data-driven solutions
• Algorithmic management
• Safety optimization
• Risk rationalization
• Expert knowledge as the basis of power
4.2. Efficiency vs freedom
• Prioritizing efficiency
• Reducing the role of subjectivity
• Replacing policy decisions with technical
ones • Reducing choice space
4.3. Risks
• Loss of transparency
• Algorithmic dominance
• Dehumanization of solutions
• Vulnerability to systems errors
• Concentration of power in the hands of technological elites

Chapter 5. Hybrid models
5.1. Balance as a process
• Abandoning static equilibrium
• Balance as constant regulation
• Contextuality of decisions
• Dynamic reallocation of priorities
5.2. Contextual ethics
• Different situations – different solutions
• Crisis vs. normalcy
• Cultural differences
• Time constraints
• Flexibility of regulatory framework
5.3. Multi-level systems
• Local, national, global levels
• Decentralization of decisions
• Distribution of responsibility
• Network forms of management
• Pluralization of sources of power

Chapter 6. Author’s concept
6.1. Balance sheet principles
• Irreducibility of freedom and safety
• Priority of minimizing dominance
• Principle of reversibility of restrictions
• Transparency and accountability
• Principle of “necessary risk”
6.2. Conditions for the legitimacy of restrictions
• Necessity (no alternatives)
• Proportionality
• Temporality
• Verifiability
• Consent (or its functional equivalents)
6.3. Dynamic model of freedom and safety
• Balance as unstable equilibrium
• Constant adjustment
• Feedback from society
• Institutional review mechanisms
• Role of crises in balance restructuring
• Self-restraint of power as a key element

Conclusion
• Final synthesis of all volumes
• Freedom and safety as interdependent but conflicting categories
• From the illusion of harmony to the recognition of tension
The answer to the main question of the series:
• The final balance is impossible
• Only temporary, contextual decisions are possible
• Freedom requires risk-taking
• Safety requires restriction of freedom
Final points:
• The main thing is not to eliminate the conflict, but to manage it
• Danger – in the desire for absolute safety
• Freedom exists only where uncertainty remains
Prospects for further research:
• Transforming freedom in the digital age