When I was going to begin reading the 6th chapter I saw the title and it was “freedom in action” and I thought that it was simply that we are free to do or not to do an action, but after reading the chapter I noticed that it was much more complicated.
We saw that what you do can only by an action when you want to do it, when you do it “voluntary”, Voluntary is a word that we are use to hear and we just take its meaning as “do it because you want”; ok, it is right but voluntary has a more complex meaning for example the history that Savater tell us in the book about the Capitan of a ship that wanted to get safe to home, but to be able to do that he had to drew the cargo overboard, but he didn’t want to throw it because it was very expensive, but he finally throw it to save his and the crews life, so doesn’t it contradict what I just say about wanting to do something is an action? I think that actions cannot be just determinate because you want to do it, because even if you don’t want to do something and you have to do it and you do it, it is an action too.
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When something is voluntary, is what you want to do, for example when you go and help poor families, there will be someone who wants to do it, and someone who will be forced to. This is like the example of the ship,and differentiates voluntary from unvoluntary actions. YOu are right illeana, after reading the chapter I started realizing the huge differences.
ReplyDeleteAs you, I agree that concepts like "voluntary" and "freedom" seemed less complex before I start reading this chapter, but after reading it, I understood the full concept of freedom, that we are free in everyway and as I said in my blog, we are 100% free. And about the word voluntary, it's not always what we want to do, but what we do when we have to do it.
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