Shouldn't America--the Land of the FRee--err on the side of promoting MORE Personal FReedom, not less?
FReegards...MUD
That is a good question. There has been a hugh amount of work done on the idea over the past 2-3 centuries. It starts more or less with Kant's work, but nobody can read that stuff, so Hegel, Fichte, and Schilling are a better starting point. Then you can jump a century to Heidegger and Husserl. We could develop the whole thing from scratch again, of course.