What The Theory

Escape from Freedom


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"They may take our lives but they'll never take out freedom!!" Mel Gibson screamed in a questionable Scottish accent as the iconic William Wallace in Braveheart. It's a sentiment we all hold sacrosanct: Freedom. The idea of being free from the oppression of tyrants, from ideologies that limit us and from judgments of our peers. However, this idea when looked at closely starts to show a partial appreciation of freedom. Erich Fromm's work on escape from freedom borrows from Isiah Berlin's concept of freedom from something vs freedom to do something. In this video, I explore these ideas of negative and positive freedom, and how easy it is for us to escape the radical responsibility of positive freedom.

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What The TheoryBy Joel Muhumuza