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From the UK, philosopher Jonathan R¨¦e
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Freedom truth and thinking
The only thing that¡¯s indisputable about the idea of freedom is that it¡¯s always in dispute.
And the same applies to freethinking too. It¡¯s a word with a lot of history: in the eighteenth century, certain dissident protestants liked to refer to themselves as ¡®free-thinkers¡¯ ¨C but they were roundly rebuked and ridiculed, and not without reason. They flattered themselves absurdly, according to their critics. (There was a very funny satire on them by Bishop Berkeley, for instance: he thought that their confidence that they represented freethinking only proved that they knew nothing either about freedom or about thinking.) But I had better rein in this historical hobbyhorse, or at least save it for a later outing. The essantial point remains: you do not prove that you are free by saying or thinking that you are.
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