Banach's Lecture continued..

"Are we living freely or made to think freely?" A complex question with probably no exact or correct answer. I believe we are both, but that's the easy way to answer it.

In Banach's Lecture "The Ethics of Absolute Freedom" he addresses existence and freedom. The lecture consist of freedom of choice and opinion made by self, in physical, political and mental ideals that are possible and impossible. I think we are allowed to think freely more then we are to live freely because of the boundaries that surround us. I am not free to allow myself to "close my eyes right now and find myself in the Bahamas when I reopen them" but I am allowed to freely think that. In other words its physically impossible. But what about the possible? The possibility in change is freely expressed in situations that require us to act different. Its the fact that "freedom is [a] necessity of pulling ourselves together at each moment out of the myriad different influences" says Banach, and I agree entirely with.

Another thing I agree with in Banach's lecture is the fact that change is inevitable, we are freely made to think and physically able to change ourselves because "we all know the power of good editing, of the creative juxtaposition of determinate elements. It can transform experience; make the ugly beautiful and the ordinary, sublime." and because of that we have history being made such as our first black President, Barack Obama. Which also shows progression which was caused by the freedom of change people made from the 1900's to the 2000's.

Society also plays a roll in how our freedom is monitored because of the influences and types of style that past judgment among us. Its almost as if "I [was] a puppet, my body and its actions completely controlled by some malevolent master..." says Banach and it can be completely true because of how society portrays things; such as how women should do more cooking and cleaning and men should be the one bringing in the only income.

In the end, Banach lecture covers and answers that living freely can only be made by possibilities but impossibilities can be thought freely.

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