IndieAgora

Hi there, just wondered how this duty to be free and encourage freedom could apply to law, would we not preference some freedoms above others through habit, like the right to own property over freedom of movement ? Or would there be no law as law is backed by force which is not freedom. Ideally ...

First, we "know" freedom from its oppositions, ie determinism.


Are we to take oppositions to be necessarily true? Is freedom really the opposition of determinism?

We cannot define freedom formally but for all practical needs including discussions it is so.

Thanks for posting, welcome to OPF!

I like the metaphysics of freedom, we would all like to be free(r), but as you said, there is no way to know freedom, so how can you possibly know if freedom is the primary moving force of the Good, or even progress?

Thanks. First, we "know" freedom from ...

Here are the main theses of the theory of objective ethics.

1) Freedom is an objective property of the universe opposite to determinism; it is responsible for the development of the universe (evolution) and at the same time is the aim of this development. Determinism is repeatability, regularity ...