Brief in the Afternoon

Is Freedom A "Right" Or A "Duty"?

About these sentences from Camus, Seyyed Morteza Avini (an Iranian documentary filmmaker, author, and theoretician) says:

Camus says that a society of merchants (or “the society of…”, based on a Persian translation), looking upon liberty as a “right for themselves” not a “duty toward others”, and this is the remark that I am attracted to: free will and liberty of human beings, further than being their right, is their duty. We say duty toward God…

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