"To defend the truth, to articulate it with humility and conviction, and to bear witness to it in life are therefore exacting and indispensable forms of charity."
A man is free in the sense that he is the owner of himself. However he happened to be born inside a cage. The owner of the cage uses his property right on the cage in such a way as not to open it, leaving this way the man with no possibility of exiting the cage. Can this man be called free?
In this example, the man in the cage is free. The things he can not do, such as leaving the cage is not to a lack of freedom but to poverty. He has not property over other resources in order to leave the cage.
Historically, the example is bizarre. It calls to ask: why the man's mother gave birth in the cage?, why did not somebody else help the man to leave the cage, etc.
However, the example highlights the fact that freedom ultimately deals with property on resources.
If man wants to be himself's owner economic development necessarily will tend to erode slavery till disappearing.
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In this blog, I attempt to show the state of the arts in my mind about every issue dealt with in the different posts.
So, as I change my mind, faithfully at least partially due to comments by readers, I will make the change in the respective post.
Post texts, being a sort of living reflection of ideas, will evolve. That's why you are invited to read the same posts you are interested in, periodically.
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A riddle on the so-called "positive" freedom:
A man is free in the sense that he is the owner of himself. However he happened to be born inside a cage. The owner of the cage uses his property right on the cage in such a way as not to open it, leaving this way the man with no possibility of exiting the cage. Can this man be called free?
In this example, the man in the cage is free. The things he can not do, such as leaving the cage is not to a lack of freedom but to poverty. He has not property over other resources in order to leave the cage.
Historically, the example is bizarre. It calls to ask: why the man's mother gave birth in the cage?, why did not somebody else help the man to leave the cage, etc.
However, the example highlights the fact that freedom ultimately deals with property on resources.
If man wants to be himself's owner economic development necessarily will tend to erode slavery till disappearing.
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