4 concepts of freedom by Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian Architect


1. That an action, of which the agent does not know why he performs it, cannot be free, goes without saying1. That an action, of which the agent does not know why he performs it, cannot be free, goes without saying
1.1. Love:  i carry it [the action] out because I love it. In the long paragraph containing this statement, Steiner sets the love of the action within the context that a free action is not influenced by any moral maxim

2. Thinking 
An action is felt to be free in so far as the reasons for it spring from the ideal part of my individual being; every other part of an action [?] . . . is felt to be unfree

3. Obedience to Oneself
Man is free in so far as he is able to obey himself in every moment of his life

4. Non objective self determination 
One has to find person's own self, only then the person can make of himself/herself a free man/woman

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