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2007-02-22 07:14:59 · 9 answers · asked by In a mission 3 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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It depends of what you think freedom is. My freedom is to live with my family in peace.

2007-02-22 07:56:59 · answer #1 · answered by mhshhaduw 2 · 0 0

If your little brother whacks you on the head with a brick, are you going to claim that he lacked the freedom not to do it?
___Freedom goes hand-in-hand with two other things: power and responsibility. Without the power to behave some way or another, there's no effectual freedom. (This can include cognitive behavior). And like it or not, if you perform a free act under your own power, you're responsible for it and its consequences. There are some limits on this, though, because our freedom isn't absolute. We are moved by our feelings, upbringings, understandings, etc, so our freedom is partial. and other people can contribute to actions.
___Then again, others are subject to many of the same limitations, so most of them cancel out in a human system. In other words, in the usual way of talking about who's the responsible person, there isn't much room to weasel out by referring to limitations that everyone else shares.
___Freedom is in a sense self-creating. The more we have faith in it and exercise it, the more of it we have, though this is also subject to limitations. But beware of negative self-fulfilling prophecies. Making excuses for yourself (denying responsibility) can get habitual, and shape your self-concept as one who is powerless. It's like shooting yourself in the foot and trying to walk.
___Human freedom is in some ways a house of cards, but it's a house of cards that works. Put in some quantum indeterminacy and liveliness, add a bit of butterfly effect, mix in the conditioned, acquired capability of unconsciously treating worldly objects as separate and distinct from one another (as an unconscious, functional paradigm of distinctness), fold in the even-more-distinct exemplification that comes from learning language (in which symbols have a spatiotemporal existence, and can be maipulated like worldly objects), throw it all together in reiterative compoundings of cognitive skills, and voila! A freedom capable ego, based on the effectual compundings of the distinction between subject & object, sign and referent.
___Of course, in this compact form, the explanation sounds like gibberish, but how much can you expect from Yahoo Answers?
___At any rate, there's no freedom in death because there's no power in death. What you get in death is peace, the absence of all conflict and struggle, and hence, of all activity. At least the modern version of peace is most like death.

2007-02-22 15:50:49 · answer #2 · answered by G-zilla 4 · 0 0

You got free air to breathe & free scenery to look at & the freedom to go for a walk.

2007-02-22 15:23:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Disagree! Humans are free to think, free to imagine, free to feel, free to experience, free to choose. No different from any other animal on this planet. But just as free. And arguably maybe a bit more so.

2007-02-22 15:44:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Oh I don't know. Some of us have a certain freedom of choice.
To do good or to do bad are our main choices.

2007-02-22 19:27:07 · answer #5 · answered by Imogen Sue 5 · 0 0

No, that is incorrect. You can find freedom in this life. You can also find happiness, joy, and peace if you search for them with all your heart you will find them.

2007-02-22 16:55:57 · answer #6 · answered by The Lamb of Vista 3 · 0 0

I would rather be Alive and Free than DEAD and free given the choice!!! I believe you can have it both ways Dead OR ALIVE!!!!

2007-02-22 15:26:38 · answer #7 · answered by dca2003311@yahoo.com 7 · 0 0

..........and since most humans are afraid to die we fear freedom.

:-)

2007-02-22 15:22:44 · answer #8 · answered by ~ 3 · 0 0

its up to them.

2007-02-22 15:22:53 · answer #9 · answered by nicholas 1 · 0 0

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