"Al Azhar doesn't object to freedom of expression, but promoting atheism is anathema," responded Afifi at a conference last week.
There is a more complex reason why the work cannot simply be reduced to biography: his melancholia somehow allowed objects the freedom to speak for themselves.
There were, he maintained, three possible such objects: pleasure, freedom from pain, and the natural advantages such as health and strength.
The two doctors testifying for the government told the court they did not object to greater freedom with proper safeguards, like post-trip evaluations by hospital officials.
To him, the Mystic version of "The Rite of Spring" is not just a dance about a deadly tribal ritual but an object lesson in freedom of thought: "With the war in Iraq, everybody said, 'Let's follow.' You have to have someone to say: 'Hey, let's think with our own heads.
One might still object that this freedom of choice is incapable of being the basis of a pure principle of right for the same reason that happiness was incapable of being its basis, namely, that it is too vague in itself and that when specified by the particular decisions individuals make with their free choice, it loses its universality.
Moreover, setting out the constitutive conditions for possessing a concept might be of some interest to philosophers generally, since many of the crucial questions they ask concern the proper understanding of ordinary notions such as material object, person, action, freedom, god, the good, or the beautiful.
"There is a double meaning to 'Enduring Freedom,"' objected Franz Allina of the Bronx in a letter to The Times.
Evgeny Morozov, the author of "The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom," objects that the video is another example of a kind of low-impact concern he calls slacktivism.
Apart from their lack of blur and judder when tracking fast-moving objects and their freedom from wishy-washy greys, they can be viewed from wider angles than LCDs without the picture changing colour.
Dreyfus referred to the United States president Barack Obama and previous Australian prime ministers who had disclosed such diaries in the past, and said release of the diary extracts was entirely consistent with the objects of the Freedom of Information Act, the starting point for any FOI application.
