HUMAN FREEDOM

• John Locke’s views on the nature of freedom have two definitions: strong and the weak.
• Freedom is limitless.
• Strong freedom is the ability to choose any option; we may do what we’re doing or we may choose not to do what we’re doing.
• For Satre, existence is freedom, that freedom for him means “by oneself to determine oneself to wish.
• Positive freedom is ‘positive’ in the sense that individual will want to be their own masters.
• Berlin’s words, by virtue of positive freedom, one will “wish to be a subject, not an object” (1969, 131).
• Individuals should pursue an ideal of true liberty in which they will be able to achieve their full human potential and live virtuously.
• The central statement of embodied choice is the existence of bidirectional influences between action and decisions.
• Decision making is the action or process of making decisions, especially important ones.
• Decision making is the wider process of problem-solving, decision-making involves choosing between possible solutions to a problem.
• Decisions can be made through either an intuitive or reasoned process, or a combination of the two.
• Action is the act or process of doing something, typically to achieve an aim.
• Action is a manner or style of doing something, typically the way in which a mechanism works or a person moves.
• Actions are the result of your thinking, beliefs and several other things deciding your behavior.
• Consequences are where our thoughts and actions meet reality.
• If we reflect on our actions and their consequences, we then consider our actions more carefully and cease being merely reactive to situations.
• Over time, we become wiser and more skillful in our actions.
• Positive actions are actions that lead to positive thinking and help create a blissful life.
• Negative actions are actions that result in unhappy conditions.
• There is nothing we experience beyond the results of our own actions.
• Choice’s people make.
• Cause and effect between action.
• The implication of this action.
• Long term effect of this negative action.