HW # 3

In "The Ethics of Absolute Freedom" : Part 2 of Banach's lecture, he says that to understand what absolute freedom is; " we must first see how, even though our inescapable nature is to be free, we inevitably tend to try to escape our freedom........ We attempt to deceive ourselves and act as if we weren't free, as if we were really by our nature , our body or the expectations of other people." I agree with this because we do have absolute freedom but sometimes we choose not to completely use our freedom. Due to the fact that we let others, our body and our nature make who we are. I understand when he says the expectations of others but what about our nature and our body? Body as in how we look or as in what?? Our nature could be our personality the way one acts or maybe even our ethics??

In the third paragraph, he says we all have said things like; " I can't talk to people. I don't have that kind of personality or I can't pass this course, I just don't have the brain for calculus or I don't know what happened. I guess the beer made me crazy." I believe these are just excuses we come up with to explain our actions, when really we have the freedom to choose what we want to be or do. For example for the line that says " I can't pass this course, I just don't have the brain for calculus" we choose not to actually try to understand it. I know we all have strengths and weaknesses but we can " have the brain for calculus" because we have freedom to at least try to understand it not just give up.

I really like the part where he states we all make ourselves the image other people have of us;

" We are a different person with our friends than with our parents. We are different person with a lover than with our acquaintances, and we are different still when we are in the classroom or at a job interview." I believe this is absolutely true, we do act a certain way with different people. I don't think it makes us fake, in the end we still are who we are because we have the "absolute freedom" to choose our actions.

I am going to try to answer some of the questions my schoolmates have with my view on them : For example “How does religion play a role in this?” I think it plays a role because it is part of how we choose to live, our absolute freedom. But some might say that it's just another way we deceive ourselves from our freedom. BUT at the same time we have the freedom to choose what we believe in. These kind of thoughts are the type of thoughts that are seen differently by each person, never a correct answer.

Well these are my thoughts and views on Banach's lecture: Part 2.