We always take for granted that we have free will, that we decide freely, we consider freedom as one of the most important value of our society. However I would like to ask: are we really free? And what freedom really consist of? There is a long tradition of determinism, great philosophers like Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Emanuele Severino, just go mention a few, even Einstein, argue against freedom.
What about if it is just an illusion? What about if the future is there already and we do not see it just because we live in a very limited time? What about if time is illusion too and the past, the present and the future are just conventional and part of the whole?
Maybe we need to live in this illusion to avoid paralysis, we need to think that our very act of thinking is free. However it would be useful if we doubt and not take freedom as the Truth.
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