2007-02-15 22:51:43 · 13 answers · asked by marathoncook 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
free from...?
theoretically the ultimate in freedom is having a free mind, but no mind is free from everything that can suppress or mold it as long as it is contained in a reality with rules and others.
if you mean from society and its rules; not until a society with rules is nonexistent for you.
everything that we hold dear, everything we ignore and everything we hate rule our lives in ways we only sometimes do and only sometimes want to see. true freedom then is when there are no walls, no planes of reality of perception or physics that we can compare to and be contained by, as those restrict our capacity for true freedom.
but then, without those walls, will we be able to define our will, our selves as beings or entities at all? we would have gained freedom at the expense of existence.
i believe that being human as we know it, we will never be completely free, and in all probability we may not want to be either.
2007-02-15 23:19:21 · answer #1 · answered by implosion13 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Freedom is relative and in your mind. If you believe you are the servant, then you will be the servant. That's the way all governments try to force the people to think. And the people frequently want to think that way becomes it relieves them of personal responsibility.
If you believe you are free and act as if you are, then you will be free. But with that freedom comes the obligation for taking full and complete responsibility for your actions. Most people are not willing to do that. That's why we have socialists and religion, because they do not want freedom, they want a big brother to watch over and tell them what to do.
2007-02-15 23:05:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends what you mean by "free". I will be free when I finish college and get a good job. But we are never free from questions that we want to know, until our life fades away, then we will find out. I dont know if we will be free after death though.
2007-02-16 01:46:31 · answer #3 · answered by mhshhaduw 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Total freedom is enjoyed only by animals.
For human beings, in an apparent paradox, freedom results from willfully submitting to laws made for the general welfare of society.
A good example is when driving. We stop at a red light and submit to this law knowing that it will bring as a consequence freedom of mind and tranquility to all of us who drive.
2007-02-16 10:43:49 · answer #4 · answered by apicole 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
NO! humans can never be free, bcoz humans, alive, do exist and it existed in a world of complex activities and one "must" (meaning like it or not) strugle to survive. i.e. eat, study, work, and a bundle of etc.. and you cant just get what u want for there are rules, laws, manifests, codes, ethics, constitution, creed, and lists of to-do and not-to-do lists. just stay put, and still be human.
2007-02-16 01:19:11 · answer #5 · answered by count_dr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, no one is never free why i say that is if you work you are held there to a certain time of day and if on the welfare they are always on your back till you find work that's only one kind of way why humans are never free,the only time humans are free is when that are 6ft under and that's a fact.
2007-02-15 23:21:42 · answer #6 · answered by david p 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We are free, we are able to think and do what we want all we have to do if face the consequences although you also have the responsibility to do the right things.
2007-02-15 22:59:59 · answer #7 · answered by LLL H =] 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freedom is not really freedom because freedom also has boundary. It depends on how much freedom is necessary for you. What I call freedom may not be freedom for you. For instance, people in the East may still find freedom living with my parents all their lives but people in the West may call it lack of freedom. Hence freedom is a state of mind.
2007-02-15 23:11:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Our own self is the toughest bondage we suffer.... therefore the way to get free is to be rid of selfishness... easier said than done though!!
2007-02-15 22:59:01 · answer #9 · answered by small 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
yes ask Mr Humphries
2007-02-15 23:07:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋