Mehmet Akif Ersoy Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, no.8, pp.120-134, 2013 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
What means exactly the freedom of human which both on human ground and on public ground and in this context how would be determined its limit is a fact that during the history of philosophy open to dispute. The spread of Christianity and getting the believe of more people to the Christianity and in parallel with this situation the Christian perceptiveness which is in the center of philosophical viewpoint caused the decline of this viewpoint. In this instance the subject was studied that how the freedom issue was went on and was analyzed during the Middle Ages. In this context it was examined that while the main factor of freedom was intelligence in ancient philosophy, why in the Middle Ages it was accepted as the definition of sinfulness and slavery.