Delimiting the Region of Freedom

A limitless freedom is really no freedom at all. It is sheer license, which is a different thing altogether. To be without limits in doing whatever enters one’s head to do is to be licentious, not free. To be free, one must respect the limits beyond which “doing as one wishes” degenerates into such licentiousness, which is just another form of enslavement: sheer enslavement to one’s own impulses.

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