Inner freedom is the capacity of individuals to assume the responsibility they have, making conscious adapted decisions.
Inner freedom can be earned by those individuals who are able to assume the responsibility for their adapted actions in an environment being able to leave aside their own needs when making decisions.
Therefore, inner freedom is something people gain step by step, if they are able to pay the prices, or lose step by step, if they need to impose their rules.
It can be said that inner freedom is a utopia when instinctive needs, emotional needs and social values are sort of inhibitors for inner freedom.
Individuals who achieved inner freedom can make accurate decisions based on their capacity to do and to discriminate their inside from the outside which allows them to assume the individual, social and transcendent responsibility.
Basically, there are three perceptions of inner freedom:
a) The one that considers inner freedom an intellectual/spiritual approach.
b) The consideration that inner freedom is based on the actions of individuals.
c) The integration of both, which is the unicist ontological approach.
The unicist ontological approach implies that real internal freedom will be achieved when an individual is able to make adapted conscious decisions.
NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in using the unicist logical approach in complexity science research and became a private global decentralized leading research organization in the field of human adaptive systems. It has an academic arm and a business arm. http://www.unicist.org/repo/#Unicist