Freedom
Today’s culture is life with clichés and preconceptions about freedom, beginning with the idea that freedom is nothing more than the ability to “do what you want. This course has modestly attempted to go beyond this simplified view to explore the conditions and limits of freedom. But the subject remains inexhaustible and complex. Rousseau, an 18th century philosopher, had this to say about freedom: “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. Spinoza, a 17th century philosopher, said this about freedom: “Such is the human freedom that all men boast of having, and which consists only in those men are conscious of their desires and ignorant of the causes that determine them.
Is it by being the author of identity that freedom is possible ?Explain.
- For the theory paragraph, explain the answer that Marxism or Sartre’s existentialism would give.