R. A.:
Perhaps freedom is not a thing. We are free, to the extent that we are free, because our
essence is freedom; and it is this essential human freedom that inspires us to desire
freedom, to demand freedom, to struggle and to die for freedom, to resist slavery, and to
contend against subjugation and servitude. Whatever freedom we enjoy is the result of
human freedom, because only those who are free can be free, only those who are free can
hate slavery, only those who are free can fight for the promise and the possibility of
freedom. If we are not free, then we will not want to be free; if we do not want to be free,
then we will never be free.
K. G.:
You've been reading too much Sartre.
R. A.:
I confess that I have read a lot of Sartre, and the other important existentialist philosophers.
I do consider my philosophy to be intensely existentialist.
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"True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant."
-- Miguel de Unamuno
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