whats your deffinition of freedom? explain?

Answer 1

The ability to make positive choices for my/our/your future.... more than being able to choose to breathe....more than being forced to make a choice..... the will to power......

Answer 2

I sometimes define 'freedom' as the gap in time between when a desire first manifests and that desire is satiated. By this definition, freedom is very dependant on the kind of desire and the amount of power you possess.

For example, suppose you wanted to pick your nose. In most circumstances that's not a problem - the gap is almost nonexistant. However even here we can imagine some people who have no fingers (or nose!) and thus lack power, and those who are in circumstances (at the office) where they feel that they cannot and thus lack as much freedom.

Or suppose you wanted to move somewhere. If you are a medieval serf, you may long all your life to do this and never accumulate enough power to do so. Today, you might need to save up some money, perhaps make some arrangements for an apartment or something, so it might take you a month or two. If you were a megamillionaire, you could probably have one or your 'people' acquire a house and have it furnished for you by the time you arrived in an hour.

If your desire is to fly through the air on your own power, then no amount of terrestrial power right now is likely to be able to grant you this. Everybody has an indefinite gap. But maybe some aliens could pull it off, or a god could float merrily along, should the desire manifest.

It is worth nothing that by this definition the ONLY way to be COMPLETELY free is to be omipotent. So don't hold your breath on that one. But at least virtually everyone is free to be happy any time they choose. Yay! ( :

Answer 3

Freedom is a concept, just like anything else. So, just like anything else, it is what you make of it. If you are the Emperor of Rome, but you still yearn for more, you are bound to that yearning. And if you are the Man in the Iron Mask, but you can see beauty wherever you look, you can be free.

Although I believe personally that the most fundamental freedom is spiritual, I also realize than for many people this coincides with their mental freedom. The ability to feel unfettered, and to look ahead with tranquility is what I think it means to be free.

Answer 4

"Freedom" is just another word for nothing left to lose!!! Hahahaha Sorry, I could not resist that quote. :-) Know how long you have to wait for a chance to say that line?? hehehe Seriously though, as to the question itself, my own definition of Freedom would be the ability to live your life intertwined with the rest of humanity without being unduly forced to do things against your will. Other than that can't say much further because as long as we all live together and not alone we all have responsibilities and things that we are compelled to do by circumstance, and sometimes govt. itself in order for things to keep moving. It is that lack of too many of those that represents freedom to me. Just my 2 cents.!!

Answer 5

The most fundamental freedom, I believe, is mental - one's ability to maintain a still and content mind under all circumstances. There's no greater tyranny than a mind that's bound by compulsions and addictions.

It seems to me that all other freedoms (e.g. political or economical) are secondary to that. Of what use is it to be physically free when the mind is bound in chains?

In other words, freedom is not about being free to do what we want, it is about being free from want itself. In this sense, one can be king of the world and lack freedom. And one can be a prisoner in jail and yet be free.

Answer 6

The right to live my life as I choose. Work in my chosen profession and be fairly compensated for it. Be safe from crime. Live where I want, read the books and watch the movies I want to. Be able to take advantage of any goods or services that my honestly acquired means make available to me.

My freedoms end as soon as they start to conflict with someone elses.

Answer 7

one that fights for freedom. United countries Peacekeeping tension...to maintain the peace they ought to combat on occasion...don't understand the belief regardless of the undeniable fact that. Freedom fighters often start up off with an inspirational ideology. After a together as they're deemed as ingenious fighters, then rebels then ultimately terrorists,,,enemies of the State. flow discern!

Answer 8

Freedom is being able to do what you to do;say;think ,free worship The United states of America

Answer 9

controlled control

freedom is a lie, only partial freedom exists when under a ruling body, and there is even less freedom when you are free

i had to do a paper on this, i spent a long time on it

Answer 10

propaganda used to garner support for any political party.

It's BS, there's only relations of force all the way down, from particle physics to biology, to beliefs/desires/intentionality and the action that derives from the web of influences or power relations. Where there is a gap in causality, caprice, randomness, you are no more in control of that, then you are all the chemicals in your body that add up to one desire winning out over another.

No one is driving, no one is in control.

Freedom is just shorthand for praising the rich and blaming the poor.

Answer 11

Freedom to me is the right to do anything I want, think anything I want, make whatever of my life I want -- as long as I don't hurt anybody else doing my own things and having my own thoughts, I should be free to do and think them.