Negation on Nostr: In ancient Greece, to be free meant first of all to be a citizen, that is, a ...
In ancient Greece, to be free meant first of all to be a citizen, that is, a participating member of the polis. This membership entailed certain powers, but freedom was not reducible to having these powers. Instead, they followed from freedom as its implication. In other words, freedom was an identity or a mode of being, an actuality, rather than a power or potency.
quoting note174v…3ymsFreedom is not most fundamentally, a means by which one achieves an external goal. It is not first a power or choice.
Instead, it is itself an end. Freedom is ultimately what we are set free for.
In this understanding, the aspect of power or choice which has dominated the discussion of the nature of freedom is derivative.
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