miércoles, 14 de octubre de 2009
Condemned Freedom
In this chapter, there are several points of view belonging to the concept of freedom. I strongly agree with the Sartrean formulation of us being unable to choose whether we are free or not, he points out that we are condemned to freedom. This thought made me question about the essence of freedom itself. I don't think freedom itself is true as we cannot choose if we want to have it or not (Of course talking about freedom not as a noun). We are born with the capability of choosing among options and taking decisions, though we can't yet choose if that is what we want for our lives or not, it comes with the whole package, it comes with us. I refuse to say freedom is pure, I believe it is just an illusion although I consider choices as real, because they determine each reality we Choose to live in. I perceive my reality as I choose to perceive it, there is no one who will ever possess me and take away that freedom from me, yet I wonder what happens when people kills other people? For me thats stealing, not only life but the freedom other people had to choose whether they wanted to still live or commit suicide, their time is fastened and their lives end because of the freedom of an individual. So what I think is that Freedom may not be totally true but it is both collective and individual. Individual in the sense that you have your own freedom and can choose to do, think, or want to not be(or be), but collective in the sense that you should respect others' freedom to maintain everybody's freedom free?
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i am concerned because i think a person can choose a path but i had never thought that of a path in a collective way like you say, there are also paths that are just individual. in this way what can you say about freedom, and also why people choose paths they dont really want.
ResponderEliminari have to agree with you saying that there are alot of different point of views in this chapter concerning freedom. I look at freedom the same way you look at it. It is just great to see freedom as your own thing that no one can take away from you.
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