Cynic philosophers recognized three related and interdependent concepts of freedom, and we would do well to do the same — “What is the most beautiful thing in the world?” “Freedom,” replied Diogenes of Sinope. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, VI.69) These days there is much talk of freedom, and just as little understanding of what it is and what it entails. Especially in the United States, certain people seem…