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Suppose for a Minute That Correct Freedom Is Positive Freedom

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Suppose for a minute that correct freedom is positive freedom.
Write an essay discussing the ingredients in,and conditions for,positive freedom.
You'll want to distinguish positive freedom from negative freedom,and to address the following questions:
What are the factors that limit and "open up" positive free choice?
Are there particular kinds of ends that must be pursued and that when absent limit your freedom?
What conditions have to be in place,in your life,for you to be positively free?
Are there some ways of choosing goals (and means toward goals)that are more or less sustainable and livable?
Give examples illustrating both choices that are more positively free and choices that are less positively free.


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Egg-laying mammals, such as the platypus and echidna, characterized by their unique reproductive system.

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Mammals that carry and nurture their young in a pouch.

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