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Cheers, Frank. It was an invitation to reconsider the way freedom is framed in your culture. The rest is up to you. Did you read the article?

Cheers. We need to take care not to downplay the rules. They are in a way the sense, the conscience, made explicit so that it is part of the public sp...

Pretty much. But see 's post, positing that society is constituted by opposing forces. Does society stand on conflict, or on cooperation? Whence the g...

Hmm. The article is an invitation to notice, in contrast, that society is overwhelmingly about cooperation.

If one were to be so bold as to try to derive an argument from the morass of Arendt's writing, what might it be? One might do well to set aside the hi...

A line of thought rather than an argument. Both deontology and consequentialism present algorithmic methods for deciding moral cases. There's two thin...

Fish laid eggs long before there were chickens.

This made me laugh... But then with you, it's possible you are serious.

Israel's Apartheid Against Palestinians

It's not a straight forward philosophical essay, as was noted earlier by @"Ciceronianus" and I. But it fits pretty well into Existentialisms approach ...

I give up.

That's... not what I read. So you think the Arendt article is solely about politics? Why? As in, what about the article led you to restrict it in that...

You are allowed to change your mind. Indeed, it is a good thing.

...so you expect me to show how your apparent change of opinion makes sense...? Obtuse. And uninteresting.

That's your statement...?

Which assertion?

This present line of conversation seems quite pointless.

Oh, you are welcome to come over for dinner, if you like. I made a vegetable lasagne yesterday, and have plenty left to share. But yes, as it stands, ...

That'd be because I still can't make sense of the question. To whom would Ardent's notion of freedom not apply?

Sweet. I noted your previous mention of capabilities.

Whomever? From individual to state.

I don't see your point. Who do what, now?

I wonder if you have come across this alternate picture of freedom before, is all.

Sovereignty is supreme power. It's not restricted to mere states. https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=sovereign&ref=searchbar_searchhint It's not an o...

The fact of having to act is of far more significance than the dubious question of whether what we do is determined or not. That we must act is what i...

Oh, yes. Small steps. Stopping at the red light is a start.

Characterising virtue as a way of achieving happiness misplaces it within consequentialism.

And here we get to the heart of Arendt's article, and to the title of this thread. Stopping at red traffic lights allows one to get to one's destinati...

Too late. I've written you out of my will. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Ond-OwgU8

Balls.

It wasn't a definition.

I'm still me when unconscious.

Impressive. This should be overkill, but unfortunately it seems to be needed.

So take a quick look at the article, where Arendt presents an account which might have you reconsider what "seems obvious"...?

Yeah, I read that before and ignored it. Looks too Motherhood to be of much use. Might leave it there.

Then perhaps you are lost? I am my thoughts and my feelings and my brain and my heart and my liver and my shoes and my actions and whatever else might...

So... where are you?

, @"Janus" The nuance here is the distinction between freedom and free will. To my understanding the Greeks thought in terms of freedom, but Arendt ar...

Have a read an let me know.

Well, you are not the first person here to claim that they have solved the problem of consciousness. But you are claiming that we have free will and y...

You could make an interesting point then, if what you say is so, by showing the relation to the article instaed of just claiming it.

I pretty much agree with this... ...even were we to replace "psychology" with "neuroscience". If you explain your choices in terms of neuroscience, yo...

Your comment does not address the somewhat extensive outline that Arendt sets out in the article. Nothing in the SEP article contradicts Arendt's hypo...

The name dropping, the latin intrusions, the hyperbole and metaphor verge on the incoherent in section IV of the Arendt article. I recall from somewhe...

I found this of interest as I've had an eye towards identifying the contributions of Christianity to philosophical thought, a continuation of a few th...

No, I'm not. Self is more complex than that. Nor do I see much use in bringing neuroscience into what is essential a discussion of intentionality.

What to make of being called a hypocrite by Barnaby Joyce... He is an expert on the topic, after all. The liar part is common knowledge, and so nothin...

I agree. Your brain does not make you choose, it is you choosing.

, So we see the notion of free will as an outcome of the developing theology of sin, redemption and damnation. It was needed in order for Christianity...