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Freedom and Morality

Freedom and morality are connected because morality teaches us to choose between right and wrong behaviors with our freedom. Morality deals with values and principles that guide our choices, while ethics are moral principles that inform the choices we make. True freedom comes from being able to make choices influenced by our knowledge and experiences rather than in absolute isolation from all factors. Morality and free will work together as morality provides guidance for using our free will to choose right actions over wrong ones.

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Freedom and Morality

Freedom and morality are connected because morality teaches us to choose between right and wrong behaviors with our freedom. Morality deals with values and principles that guide our choices, while ethics are moral principles that inform the choices we make. True freedom comes from being able to make choices influenced by our knowledge and experiences rather than in absolute isolation from all factors. Morality and free will work together as morality provides guidance for using our free will to choose right actions over wrong ones.

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Freedom and morality are connected to each other.

We have freedom to do
things and to decide things for ourselves. But morality teaches us to choose
from the right and the wrong behavior. Morality is concern about the values,
conducts, and principles of a certain person while freedom is being able to make
your own decisions and getting done.
These two have a big relationship with each other because they must be
given importance in our lives. What is the deeper relationship between freedom
and morality? And what can be done to have them both? Morality falls under the
concept of dictum which tells us, “To do good and to avoid evil.” It can be
observed in our everyday living. We can see it even in the simplest act that a
person is doing. For example, a student decides to study and take a review at
night. Morality comes in because that student has a choice and she has chosen
to do the good thing rather than doing other things. Morality and ethics both
focuses on the human conduct. It deals with the standards of right doings and
the wrong ones. But there is also a big difference between the two. Morality talks
about the right and wrong doings while ethics are the moral principles. Meaning
ethics is can be considered under morality. It is like a step where a person
chooses from doing the right or wrong thing. When she already had a decision
and she stands for it, ethics will come on its way.
Free will allows freedom of choice. Free will is the ability to choose with
intelligence and common sense. Our choices cannot be completely free from
our knowledge, values, perceptions of everyday life and the things around us.
Our choices are not free from the influence of our past thoughts and decisions.
The freedom of free will is not discrediting influencing factors such as our own
self-awareness, our ability to seek out knowledge and project the future, and
our awareness of our own thinking. This is where our source of freedom comes
from. It makes us as human beings aware of what we want. The proper
understanding of free will is that our choices are not free from various
influences, but we are free to make our own choices in the end. Peter van
Inwagen argues that the very existence of moral responsibility entails the
existence of free will. True freedom is commonly defined as absolute choice;
whether it is in thought, actions or speech, freedom is an individual’s ability to
take control of their lives and enables the human experience. Civilization views
freedom as an ideal, yet the means of achieving it and whether or not freedom is
truly achieved remains ambiguous. There are often individuals in civilized
society who struggle and believe themselves to be free after a hard-earned victory
against oppression.
I had a very different sense of morality and freedom. I’d grown up
thinking that moral law such as the Bible’s Ten Commandments, while
necessary to keep society safe, was confining. And I felt that freedom in its
purest sense should mean I could do whatever I wanted. Freedom requires
both the possibility of committing and refraining from an action.

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