2006-12-03 01:45:26 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
No. Any illegal or unethical actions are not part of freedom.
2006-12-03 02:06:45 · answer #1 · answered by small 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Telephone philosophy....
If you can't choose 'pure evil' then you are not free, but compelled.
Freedom is a capacity to choose any from an array of options, uninfluenced by the environment. But you will always pick THE BEST option at a given time. The best according to the information available to you, to your intentional states: beliefs, desires, wishes, etc.
You cannot pick the less-than-best option. The only way we can make sense of freedom is counterfactually: you COULD HAVE chosen otherwise-- but for that to happen the world must have been different, which is manifestly impossible.
Where there is no best option, you choose randomly-- that is not freedom but deferral of the will to the caprice of rolling dice.
2006-12-03 15:36:55 · answer #2 · answered by -.- 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freedom can mean:
1) The absence of barriers;
2) Ability to create and position energy or matter in time and space;
3) Lots of space, and ability to use it;
4) The component parts of freedom, as we first gaze upon it, are then: affinity, reality, and communication, which summate into understanding. Once understanding is attained freedom is obtained.
2006-12-03 11:57:26 · answer #3 · answered by HeyNowBrownCow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, freedom means the ability to do whatever one pleases.
What separates humanity from barbarianism is restraint of that freedom. Unfortunately, there are a good number of people who cannot or will not restrain themselves which is why there are laws to force them to. Hence: laws against homicide, pedophilia, and not wearing a seat belt.
"Freedom" is wonderful, but only when practiced in a way not to harm but only to help.
2006-12-03 10:52:24 · answer #4 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Freedom means having the ability to make choices for oneself.
No matter what the situation may be or whatever external forces may bind you.
You always have a choice because freedom comes from within.
No one can take that from you unless you let them.
2006-12-03 10:32:36 · answer #5 · answered by Spandito 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Freedom in a literal sense means to do anything you want to do within your limits of what you are able to do. Freedom as we have it is that we do what we want to do within moral and ethical limits.
2006-12-03 12:56:02 · answer #6 · answered by Kremer 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
freedom comes with proper restraint or you are in a prison of your own making your not free if you do as you please
2006-12-03 11:47:13 · answer #7 · answered by henryredwons 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋