An Austrian philosopher Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner had gained recognition in the nineteenth century for publishing his philosophical works including “The Philosophy of Freedom”. His works address the question to which extent a man is said to be free. The first part of his work mentions Freedom in human thinking which is the most essential with respect to this topic. The second part of his works include conditions necessary for freedom of action, that is, external causality and its results. He also includes ethical individualism which is a part of moral philosophy.
In the European countries there is a law that states that racism and xenophobic behaviour is not permitted and it is punishable depending on how severe the situation is. This decision applies to all the offences committed within the
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However in Europe, there was a case where A French author, Roger Garaudy was convicted for racism, discrimination, hatred towards the Jews in his book that was published in 1995 claiming that the holocaust was a myth. Roger re-appealed the case to the European court of human rights in 2003, however the court refused to consider the case as freedom of expression wasn’t encouraged in the European Union.
In my opinion I would term allowing racism as negative freedom. Negative freedom is the nonattendance of obstructions, hindrances or stipulations. One has negative freedom to the degree that activities are accessible to one in this negative sense. Positive freedom is the likelihood of acting — or the certainty of acting — in such a route as to take control of one 's life and understand one 's key purposes. While negative freedom is normally ascribed to individual specialists, positive freedom is in some cases credited to collectivises, or to people considered basically as parts of given