Negative or Positive Understanding of Freedom

In recent decades, the question of freedom in market society and responsibility in the behavior of market players has been raised again. Usually, in the public sphere, the thesis is stressed that the state is the main reason for restricting the freedom of the market subjects. In this article, the perception of freedom as negative or positive is stated and analysed; freedom is accepted, understood and refers to every subject, member of society and participant in the market game; subject who in his/her free actions does not subdue and does not harm others and the rest. In their complex life existence ordinary people seem to be between Scylla and Charybdis of the state and the powerful national and transnational market subjects.