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Freedom of Man
There are many different definitions of freedom and each person has there own unique idea for this word. For some it is an intellectual freedom where the mind is able to see the true meaning of the world. Other will say it is a freedom from the distractions of the modern world and a return to the simplistic world of nature. Others may state that it is a freedom for subjectivity in the individual’s life. And still more may define it as being free from the confines of everyday demands and strains. While each definition focuses on a different aspect of human existence, they all have a lack of some constraint, be in physical or mental, as there defining characteristic a free existence. Plato, Thoreau, and Sartre all have their own concepts of freedom and each is defined in its own unique way and is geared to remove a different constraint from human life.
Plato espouses a freedom of the mind and intellect in his work “The Allegory of the Cave” by describing a......

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