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2007-07-09 07:56:26 · 4 answers · asked by bandawagon25 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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so whats freedom when we cant even choose what are we to remember?
2007-07-09 09:43:12 · update #1
The question of freedom arises when you are capable of doing something. In the womb, there is no such scope. Freedom must have a means.
2007-07-13 00:52:07 · answer #1 · answered by Ishan26 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolute freedom is an illusion and pre-occupation of modernity, which ascribed the attribute of divine freedom to a human nature. This mistake has engendered much of the cultural, psychological, spiritual and political misery of the past hundred or so years. Freedom, as a quality of a human nature is finite, contingent, and mitigated. The fact that we do not choose ourselves to exist is evidence of the limits of freedom in regards to a human nature.
2007-07-09 15:03:19 · answer #2 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very good point. Many of the philosophers who fetishize "freedom" ignore that freedom is (necessarily) constrained in many ways, not the least of which is the situation into which one is thrust. Also, as Schopenhauer points out, we can't choose our desires. All in all, we're far from the "absolute freedom" some folks dream about (and base their philosophies upon.)
2007-07-09 15:01:12 · answer #3 · answered by Michael_Dorfman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You DID choose where you were born. You simply don't remember. When you do - that's when you'll be free.
2007-07-09 15:11:25 · answer #4 · answered by MysticMaze 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋