THE PRINCIPLE OF FREEDOM AND EQUALITY
THE PRINCIPLE OF FREEDOM AND EQUALITY

Summary/Abstract: “Principles have such a great influence over our opinions, that we usually refer to them in order to judge truth and to weight probability, to such an extent that what is incompatible with them is so remote and seems probable that we don’t even regard it as possible” (J. Locke)1. Although specialized literature is consistent in terms of the importance of having law principles, this cannot be said about the number of long established principles or about their grounds. What is important, say professors Dogaru and Danisor2, is that “any principle in relation to which all individual relations are sorted is indispensable for maintaining the society; the significance of this principle, what it authorizes and forbids is not indifferent, and what is primordial for the social organism is first of all its existence”. The pursuit in researching the principles of freedom and equality aims to both an incursion in time and the deciphering of the juridical, philosophic and moral connotations afferent to such a vast area as that of law principles. Although an analytical3 description is intended of these principles, freedom and equality seem so interconnected in terms of their content and significance, as I consider that by undertaking them separately I would diminish their profound understanding and their impact.

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