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[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 5. Freedom of lifestyle
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Full Idea
'To live as I desire to live or not to live at all': that is what I want, that is what the most saintly man wants.
Gist of Idea
Saints want to live as they desire, or not to live at all
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra [1884], 4.09)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Thus Spake Zarathustra', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1969], p.285
A Reaction
[spoken by Zarathustra]
The
40 ideas
with the same theme
[extent to which citizens can live as they wish]:
8234
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Bondage and liberation are relative terms, which only frighten those already terrified of the universe
[Anon (Cent)]
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6679
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It is not good to be too free
[Pascal]
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19994
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Freedom in society is ability to do what is right, and not having to do what is wrong
[Montesquieu]
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19746
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Like rich food, liberty can ruin people who are too weak to cope with it
[Rousseau]
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7242
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Appetite alone is slavery, and self-prescribed laws are freedom
[Rousseau]
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7675
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Schiller speaks obsessively of freedom throughout his works
[Schiller, by Berlin]
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23271
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The goal of the world is Spirit's consciousness and enactment of freedom
[Hegel]
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21778
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True liberal freedom is to pursue something, while being free to cease the pursuit
[Hegel, by Houlgate]
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21779
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People assume they are free, but the options available are not under their control
[Hegel]
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20517
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Utilitarianism values liberty, but guides us on which ones we should have or not have
[Mill, by Wolff,J]
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20516
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Mill defends freedom as increasing happiness, but maybe it is an intrinsic good
[Wolff,J on Mill]
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7215
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True freedom is pursuing our own good, while not impeding others
[Mill]
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7218
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Individuals are not accountable for actions which only concern themselves
[Mill]
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7221
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Blocking entry to an unsafe bridge does not infringe liberty, since no one wants unsafe bridges
[Mill]
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7223
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Pimping and running a gambling-house are on the border between toleration and restraint
[Mill]
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7220
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Restraint for its own sake is an evil
[Mill]
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5306
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The free development of each should be the condition for the free development of all
[Marx/Engels]
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18304
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Saints want to live as they desire, or not to live at all
[Nietzsche]
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21519
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We need security and liberty, and then encouragement of creativity
[Russell]
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23528
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The value of liberty allows freedom of action, even if that distresses other people
[Hart,HLA]
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20544
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Berlin distinguishes 'negative' and 'positive' liberty, and rejects the latter
[Berlin, by Swift]
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7418
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The idea of liberation suggests there is a human nature which has been repressed
[Foucault]
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21946
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Prisons gradually became our models for schools, hospitals and factories
[Foucault, by Gutting]
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21733
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The right-wing conception of freedom is based on the idea of self-ownership
[Cohen,GA]
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21739
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Plenty of people have self-ownership, but still lack autonomy
[Cohen,GA]
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9231
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Freedom needs autonomy (rather than causal independence) - embracing our own desires and choices
[Frankfurt]
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20527
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Liberty Principle: everyone has an equal right to liberties, if compatible with others' liberties
[Rawls]
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4680
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Autonomy seems to acquire greater weight when the decision is more important to a person
[Glover]
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21015
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Negative liberty is incoherent; all liberties, to do and to be, require the prevention of interference
[Nussbaum]
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18651
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The most valuable liberties to us need not be the ones with the most freedom
[Kymlicka]
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9278
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Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life
[Gray]
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20518
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Liberty principles can't justify laws against duelling, incest between siblings and euthanasia
[Wolff,J]
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20531
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Either Difference allows unequal liberty, or Liberty makes implementing Difference impossible
[Wolff,J]
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20995
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Capabilities are part of freedom, involving real opportunities
[Sen]
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20998
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Freedom can involve capabilities, independence and non-interference
[Sen]
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20545
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Maybe a freedom is from a restraint, and also in order to do something
[Swift]
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20693
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Freedom may work against us, as individuals can choose to leave, and make fewer commitments
[Harari]
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22836
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'Freedom from' is an empty idea, if the freedom is not from impediments to my desires
[Charvet]
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22837
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Positive freedom can lead to coercion, if you are forced to do what you chose to do
[Charvet]
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22844
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First level autonomy is application of personal values; second level is criticising them
[Charvet]
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