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The myth of freedom and the general will
The Business Guardian
|March 22, 2025
Freedom which challenges the General Will and the Harmony of the Universe is not acceptable to gods.
Freedom, the sweetest sounding word in the dictionary, stands for man's free will while undertaking an action. But, there is a great question mark on the idea of free will. Are we really free? Can we exercise our free will? We often say that for man sky is the limit. It means he is free under the sky to do what he wants. Is it really so? What I am discussing today goes beyond the idea of political freedom. I am talking of freedom in existential as well as extraterrestrial terms.
ARE WE REALLY FREE?
In this world where constitutions grant freedom to their citizens, can we say we have freedom to act? A woman who gets pocket money, has freedom to use it the way she likes. These are small little freedoms which give us a feeling of being free to choose. But there are larger questions also which are involved in the perception of freedom. Every person wants to be rich. He works hard for it. Sometimes he commits frauds also. Can he claim freedom to do what he likes? What restricts us from doing a hundred things although apparently there is nobody to challenge us if we do?
This story is from the March 22, 2025 edition of The Business Guardian.
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