viernes, 16 de octubre de 2009

The level of Freedom

People say that some animals are free, like birds, or fish, depending on the situation you are enrolled in. In the book THE QUESTIONS OF LIFE from Fernando Savater, the author Fernando exposes three different terms to distinguish freedom:
1.- "Freedom as the capacity to act according to one's own desires or projects." This term is heavily influenced to physical ways of expressing freedom, non-abstract situations. If we think or desire something anxiously we act to transform it from a thought to a tangible thing, trying to introduce that thought of ours to the reality we all live in whatever the purpose is.
2.- "The freedom to want what we want and not just to do, or attempt to do, what we want." Attention to this term, it is only possible inside the mind of every person and it is not a plural freedom, like the number one slightly attempts to be. This freedom is more psychological and it is undeniable, every one has thoughts about what happens, what hasn't happened and what will happen.
3.- "The freedom to want that which we do not want, and of not wanting what in fact we want."
This freedom refers to when someone wants to be someone but he "wishes" to be different. For example a man who wants to have kill all the people in the world, but at the same time he wishes not do be that man, because it goes against what he values, then he is wanting not to be what he wants to be. This term is confusing and appears to have no ending.

Every single term has freedom used in a different way, but it is only the middle term the one I trust more, because is more simple and invulnerable, not even a God can forbid me to think what I want to, and in this sense I think we are the most free of all.

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