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5. “Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.” 6. “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
"Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase from the United States Declaration of Independence. [1] The phrase gives three examples of the unalienable rights which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their Creator , and which governments are created to protect.
The Life of the Mind was the final work of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), and was unfinished at the time of her death. Designed to be in three parts, only the first two had been completed and the first page of the third part was in her typewriter the evening of the day she suddenly died.
382-3 Formal conception of freedom; Buridan's Ass. 383 Idealism defines freedom. 385 Man's being is his own deed. 387 Predestination. 389-394 General possibility of evil and inversion of selfhood's place. 394 God's freedom. 396 Leibniz on laws of nature. 399 God is not a system, but a life; finite life in man. 402 God brought forward order from ...
Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.” — James Baldwin “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” —John F. Kennedy
When we feel our freedom, we are feeling our inner essence and being, which is a transcendentally free will. The will is free, but only in itself and other than as its appearance in an observer's mind. When it appears in an observer's mind, as the experienced world, the will does not appear free.
"The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens." — Andrew Johnson "Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken."
Berlin initially defined negative liberty as "freedom from", that is, the absence of constraints on the agent imposed by other people. He defined positive liberty both as "freedom to", that is, the ability (not just the opportunity) to pursue and achieve willed goals; and also as autonomy or self-rule, as opposed to dependence on others. [5]