Living through the fall of communism
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The Other Idea of Freedom
My grandmother embodied the idea of freedom as moral agency. She always insisted that she had always been free. It's not enough to just be given formal guarantees, if you don't also have a sense of opportunity. Free will shows itself even in circumstances that seem oppressive, and even when therare obstacles to realizing it.
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