I think that a comprehension of "no free will" is a beginning realisation of freedom. So freedom is not having free will but a surrender too will. Too many laws & restraints for there to be freedom? These laws cannot be escaped from. Escape is not an option. One can't "escape" into freedom. One can only transcend laws & their restraints and that IS freedom. "in the world but not of the world".

Freedom is life. It will al end in death any way. So you can do what ever is possible to do. Yet you may be arrested for the things that are possible to do that should'nt be done. Therefore you are limted to freedom, but yet have complete freedom intill stopped from having that freedom. A bird is free to fly intill it is captured.

Freedom Is a state of mind. I think a person is free as his or her mind will allow them to be. freedom is known and expected although its not always given, for example, Slavery , People born into slavery and died as a slave have never experienced such a thing, yet It was probally the most yearned for thing that has gone through their mind. How can one want somthing that, for all they're concerned dosen't even exist. Its a natural state of mind that has been taken away but still recognized without even being introduced.

How would you define freedom? There are free animals, that means that they live wild and aren't touched by human beings. But this is certainly not what we want to achieve and it isn't the freedom we are discussing about. I think, we as men have a possibility to be free no other creature has. We have a mind and the possibility to unchain it. That would be free will, the choice to go in a certain direction. However, I agree that there it is not possible to be totally free. We have needs like thirst or hunger, that always hold us back from being fully free. Perhaps there is a physical and a psychical freedom?

Not in any real since of the word, we're slaves to life, lust,hunger,fear,pain,desires and temptations,just to name a few,and subjected to rule of peers, governments,police organizations,locked inside controlled atmouspheric conditions,the list of things we are not free from goes on forever.

this reminds me so much of a qoute i read which i feel is very true and i wish to share “No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”Bob Dylan

Whilst we're alive we are sure to be restrained for we are not free from the skin we wear and the mind we carry we are wieghed down by responsiblities wether that would be work and kids or basic human needs...like eating and going to the toilet Whatever we do we have no freedom we stay trapped but breathing the day i can willfully not breath is the day i have achieved freedom.

Yes, it is fairly debatable as to whether or not we truly have free will, and a fairly in depth topic. It is more to do, however, with not social issues but rather issues of the individual, such as whether or not a person is free to make choices or rather just pre-destined by God, the body and mind, etc.

there is only one way to be truly free and that is to be god. I'm not saying god as in christianity but god as you have all the power. where you decide what happens. humans are bound by law made both by human and nature.

Freedom is just that, being free. Free from all strings that attach you to anything. Freedom does exsist, it always has. It will always be here. It is with us all as we speak, freedom is the concept of losing your mind. We are all free in reality, no one essence is captured. Only remade, or rethought to delight the prisoned.

freedom is the choice to over come the slavery that is need.

We may not be free of need but we work towards the conquering of need.

only through choice does one have freedom.

I do agree with most of these, but it is making me question too... We honestly dont have that much freedom except the choice that we make. I know for a fact that I didnt have any choice in living with my parents, and once I got out, I made choices that they told me not to, and now I am regretting those choices.. So we do have a choice of which way to go.. We could be living on the street and drink and shitt like that, or we could choose the one about falling into the society that was built by and lessen the choices we have. I personally am right between those two choices... And I am trying to make another better choice too as others are trying to do also.. And the choice and freedom come from the environment and the religion that people live..

It was Jean-Paul Sartre that said, "Humans are condemned to be free". To the Existentialist, humans are free creatures. How we choose to act is our own decision, so in that sense we are free. It is only our own minds and conscience that stop us from doing whatever crazed idea pops into our minds. There are laws set down, yes, but they do not truly govern us, only scare us into withholding our actions.

Freedom itself is an idea… it is a product of the perception… it can be perceived therefore it must exist… even if not as a material thing, but as an idea.

to a humans being, freedom is irrelevant... but not to perception...that is why we recognize it with our perception... though absolute freedom exists everywhere in nature, it is only absent in human... i would have to agree that only nature and animals are free... because they could choose to do what pleases them... they also boast the possession of free will... they do whatever they want. the thing here is that free will cannot be demonstrated by the concept of making choices, because when a being is capable of understand the concept choosing from options he is not capable doing things anymore randomly as it happens in nature... and the only creatures facing such options are human... I don’t think what the human posses is free will itself but rather the free will to choose…

we are only imprisoned by our emotions… all the law of the world could not stop someone from committing an act if he is motivated by emotion... it is only when someone completely got rid of emotions such a love, hatred, mercy, and left with no other emotion aside from selfishness... then we can say that, that person is absolutely free...

As finite creatures, we humans are forced to make choices with only partial information. At some point we are forced to make a decision among partially understand alternatives. This selection of one among several alternatives cannot be completely determined. I suppose free will is the unpredictable part of our decisions.