If a restricting border prevents a person from being free, or a social norm from being free can the person still achieve freedom. If so, how may you define free will?
Unfortunately, some mankind have their freedom further restricted either because they have done bad things them selves or have been blamed by others. For example, a prisoner, one may say, have as much freedom as anyone else. However, another may argue that freedom is not just limited to space. Some libertarian philosophers debate that freedom is the ability act accordingly to reason, self values, universal values, and independent values (whims, fancies...etc).
Another example is a person from a communist country like North Korea and has limited powers and is restricted to a certian space. Thus, he has limited resources and cannot access other parts of the globe. Coming back to the order of desires, he the man wishes to be free and explore different parts of the world, but the government restricts him to do so. Hence we could say here his second order of desire overweighs his first order of desire.
So does space limit freedom? And for the smart ones, could there possibly be more orders of desires?
Monday, December 8, 2008
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"A communist country like North Korea"? Ha ha ha.
ReplyDeleteSpace limits spacial freedom. But freedom of thought is freedom of thought, and it cannot be confined by space. Thought, however, can be easily controlled by Newspeak (Esperanto), anti-communist propaganda, and libertarian ideas.
Quoting from myself: "To achieve freedom is to become not human."