This is the paper of Ceaira Walker! Ceaira Monét Walker The Hindrance of Objective Societal Values on Internal Freedom What is freedom? What are the originsof subjective values? Are thevalues of individuals deprived from society, self or both?How do humans determine what their own values are? How do humans determine what is moral? And most importantly, do the objective values of societyhinder internal freedom? The purpose of this essay is to attempt to answer these questions with references to Rationality and Freedom by Amartya Sen, The Life of The Mind by Hannah Arendt and the works of Plato. Freedom, is a concept that has been denied by both man and self. Freedom subjectively holds various meanings, however, universally, freedom is the opportunity for a person to make unconstrained decisions. This freedom inevitably includes the ability for a person to decipher the meanings and simultaneously accept or deny the objective values of society.The essence of a virtuous person includes both morality and value andthe knowledge of what is morallygood or rightarguably, comes from within or from experience and these objective societal values can greatly contribute to a person’s identity and virtue.The external freedoms of persons such as constitutional rights hold immense value; however, because we live in a world that determines the very meaning of freedom and value itself, can man ever truly be free within? jfrcconference.altervista.org/pagina-504909.html
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