Interesting. Great article. In fact, I never thought that destiny and free will were incompatible. The ancient Greeks believed that we had both. We had a destiny that was going to inevitably happen to us, and a will that determines how we will react to it. We can face our destiny, what they saw as bravery. Or run away hopelessly from it, what they saw as cowardice. In both cases, we exercised our freedom, but destiny was fulfilled. It is a bit like death, we can run from it, but we will probably inevitably die.
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Thanks for reply! Question then arise" Why we have only limited freedom?
I would not completely say that we have limited freedom, but rather, the only thing we have freedom about is ourselves. That is, we can always choose how we want to react to what happens, but we cannot choose what happens. Our freedom is not limited in this sense, because the only thing that corresponds to our freedom is to choose how to react, not to choose what happens. And since we can react as we want, we have almost absolute freedom.
Maybe if something limits our freedom, is ourselves, our beliefs, fears, emotions, etc.
Well, i am not sure if we have absolute freedom in reaction... what about time of death?
Death is something that happens to us, and we don't control what happens to us, we control what we do.
In any case, it may not be right to say that we have absolute freedom, but we do have it to a very high degree.
There is varience .Someone have more free will and someone less.. Like for example addict on street dont have too much choices becouse his whole life is one thing. But someone who have knowledge have more opportunities. So question is what is factor which deciding who have more free will.
In my opinion, freedom has a lot to do with self-control. So it is true that an addict is likely to have less freedom than someone who does not, but at the same time, he has some power over himself that he is not using and therefore, he is choosing to remain that way, and therefore he is also responsible for their own addiction. He can begin to make better decisions to help him break out of his addiction and regain his freedom. For me, the main determining factor between having more or less freedom is making the decision to do so.
All people can achieve liberation if they set their mind to it.