In this article, the author explores the right to freedom through the prism of the evolution of philosophical doctrine at different stages of the development of human civilization. The author emphasized that in ancient times, in the myths of the Olympic period, the archetype of freedom was established as such, which is achieved through struggle, uprising but exists within the law. The author emphasized that humanity had to go through a difficult path - from the awareness of legal freedom as (...) forced freedom within the law and legal freedom as a legal solution - to a deep awareness of freedom in perceiving moral and legal boundaries in the field of law as a legal belief; from the formal understanding of the law - to the concept of legal law and its legal implementation based on justice in the paradigm of recognition of the highest value of human personality. Analysis of philosophical sources has shown that if an individual goes so far in asserting his own will, invading the sphere of the will of another and thus denying it, then resisting such an invasion will be nothing more than asserting their own originally presence in the body will. The author found that in the best examples of world literature, philosophical understanding of freedom is manifested in prioritizing not the mythohero, but the common Man - with an ordinary heart, with a normal brain, with ordinary horror, with ordinary pain - but with extraordinary willpower and extraordinary respect for Freedom. An unspeakable tragedy for a citizen is the antinomy - love for the Fatherland and simultaneous contempt for the state as a state apparatus if the latter becomes the apparatus of total dictatorship. In the end, the author stressed that the right to freedom is inalienable. That is why it is not the right to liberty that is restricted but the exercise of that right. Establishing boundaries in the exercise of the right to freedom in the paradigm of balance between individual rights and the interests of society is due to the need to regulate social relations and the need to take into account the rights of others. (shrink)