Freedom and the establishment of an external determinant

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of human freedom, which is often understood in two ways, which leads to opposite statements about freedom and about human. So, on the one hand, they can talk about a person as free initially and necessarily in the sense of the impossibility of ceasing to be free. And on the other hand, his freedom is seen as the result of some kind of effort to achieve it. Thus, such freedom is no longer primordial and is not inherent in a person with necessity. The purpose of this article is to consider the second understanding of freedom. Such an analysis should be both a contribution to understanding of human and the essence of his freedom, and an opportunity to clarify the correlation of statements about freedom, where different meanings of the latter are used. In the first part the author focuses on the definition of "possible" freedom, the possession of which is only possible and can be associated with an effort. Its absence, the author believes, is connected with the establishment of a person due to the ability of imagination of something external to him to influence by force the implementation of spontaneity in a person. In the second half, the possible causes of (not) freedom in its specified sense and the mechanisms of becoming (not) free are considered in more detail with examples.