The fundamental reason that we are concerned with the abstract concepts of freedom and liberty, is that we wish to find ways and means of enhancing, or maximizing, human well-being.

Enhancing human well-being is not a process of designing a Utopia for all, and then putting everyone into it. Perfection is an elusively unattainable goal.

The process of enhancing human well-being, and advancing human freedom therefore, is a process of understanding the fundamental nature of the human, and the nature of human action.

All living beings must act! If a human being becomes absolutely non-active, he or she is no longer living. Our concern, therefore, must be what acting human beings do, why thy do what they do, and how they do it.