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"The highest freedom then, depends upon a person choosing rightly in terms of what a human being should be. True liberty will not be found in the libertine, who enslaves himself to his animal instincts. It will not be found in the men who refuse commitment for fear of losing their freedom, for these men have already chosen, and what they have chosen is nothingness. Neither will it be found in the men who have chosen wealth and power as their fulfillment, for history tells us how easy it is for them to pervert their freedom to egoistic and vicious ends, so that while outwardly free, they are inwardly slaves to vice, greed, pride and ambition.
True freedom is found only in the man who has mastered himself, so that neither the constraint of instinct from within nor the pressure of force from without can make him deviate from the line of his conscience; it is the freedom of the man who has freed himself from the chains of ignorance and vice.... The manner in which we employ our freedom determines the kind of persons we are. "We are our loves," says St Augustine...."
from "An Introduction to Philosophy: The Perennial Principles of the Classical Realist Tradition" by Daniel J Sullivan, Tan Books & Publishers, Rockford Illinois, , c 1957, pp100-101
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