POL SCI 4 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Common Worship, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Harm Principle
20 Feb 2017
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D pay attention to 3 temptations on 25-26, subjection. Faith and freedom - why absolute truth cancels freedom. Freedom: individual willful deliberation and action (think and act according to will) and not blind submission to authority. We begin as free, but end giving it up and become enslaved. Most do not want f, prefer bread, happiness, authority (faith), common worship. Freedom as a scene *(not state of f/ unf), requires (1) human passions (2() strength to endure s fferings of free ac ion > (cid:343)eli es(cid:344), people wi h appe i e o bear h milia ion and diffic l ies of freedom (artists, priests, leaders), accept freedom. D acknowledges life"s cons rain s, b emphasizes we s ill can make some kind of choice; o give up that responsibility is to turn away from freedom. Inspiration from aristotle and augustine: creatures of deliberation able to craft life.
