Weltenge
English translation: constraints / confines of the world
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| 14:40 May 1, 2014 |
| German to English translations [PRO] Poetry & Literature / Karl Jaspers | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Helen Shiner United Kingdom Local time: 07:55 | ||||||
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peer agreement (net): +2contraints / confines of the world Explanation: ... a sense of the confines of the world... I don't think you can use 'worldly constraints' since 'worldly' then might mean 'knowing', 'of the flesh' and such like. There are probably many ways of saying this, but this is a first stab. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 24 mins (2014-05-01 15:05:12 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Apologies, that should read 'conStraints' Freedom is the absence of constraint. The kind of constraint that intrudes on our freedom is exercised by outside factors. Self-constraint does not diminish free will; it augments it. Starting from this standpoint, here are some thoughts about how to make outside contingencies l essen their grip on our freedoms. We are free if we attach value to our ideals and tackle them relentlessly. We have to be able to identify who we are, what we stand for and what compels us to do something. We are free if we lose our programming and start afresh. We must question everything inside us that seems to have been put there by our upbringing or by our environment and replace it if necessary, with values we’ve established by our own reasoning. Without deep and constant introspection we can’t hope to be much more than automatons doing what our tribe’s customs declare fit for a person to do. To quote Aristotle: “I have gained this by philosophy: I’m doing what needs to be done not out of fear of the law but because I think it right.” We’re free if we strive for knowledge every day. The constraints of the world manifest themselves mostly on the uneducated. http://philosophynow.org/issues/76/How_Are_We_Free |
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| Reference: a sense of restriction Reference information: “The first intoxication of an expanding world is giving place to a sense of restriction” http://books.google.ca/books?id=BbJIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT53&dq="The... from "Man in the Modern Age" first translated in 1933 |
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