Saturday Conversations | Freedom | Week 3
- Mar 10
- 1 min read
The conversation on 7 March explored the concept denoted by the English word freedom, and the cluster of concepts associated with it. Conceptual inquiry — the investigation of concepts — is one of the corner stones of philosophical inquiry.
Here is the announcement of the topic of the conversation:
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“A human is never born free; first, it is in the parental chain, then the family chain, and then the societal chain; the chain is everywhere.” – Ehsan Sehgal
Suppose we decide to write a monograph on the above statements. To exclude the man-
woman distinction, we may formulate Rousseau's position as:
“Human beings are born free, and everywhere they are in chains.”
But we would still need to clarify (and perhaps modify) the concepts of being born,
freedom, and what affects the presence/absence of freedom.
The Youtube video of the Week 3 conversation can be found at the following link:
A document on the broad points raised during the conversation can be found below:
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