freedom – Anne Z

Day 174 of 1000: The complexity of freedom

There’s no easy way to make important choices in our lives. We don’t know what might ensue or who we might become through those choices.

Pondering freedom in modern life. Freedom of the will vs freedom from the will. And the relation to meaningfulness vs meaninglessness.

A neighborly dispute about trash leads me to an exploration of de Beauvoir’s work and the prisoner’s dilemma.

Two perspectives on freedom, from an existentialist and a neurobiologist, and what Hegel said about consciousness.

Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave on freedom as you age, reassembling the self, and moving towards meaning