STUDENTS' PROJECTS GROUP 1

After working with the materials about freedom; free will, determinism, and reflecting about the PARADOX OF CHOICE, the students were asked to prepare a presentation on the following: 

PROJECT

Make a presentation on the concept of freedom and state:

1-      Find a philosophical definition of freedom; state your opinion and give reasons

2-      What do you understand by “fear of freedom”?

3-      Find quotations of famous people about freedom.

4-      What is freedom for you? Explain your point of view.

5-      Is our society free nowadays? Find examples of countries where people are not free and say why.

6-    Try to support your ideas with a piece of news or an article you find in the web. You may use links to newspapers, web pages, youtube, etc. 

ANE E. - ANE M.J. - MAITANE - LEIRE

FREEDOM

PHILOSOPHICAL OPINION OF FREEDOM:  

• The power to exercise choice and make decisions without constraint from within or without autonomy; self-determination.
• Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you ought.

OUR OPINION:

We agree with both definitions, because people think freedom is to do what they want, but aside that, is also the power of choosing what you think is better for you.

The meaning of freedom can change in some ways, depending on the person and his religion, culture, lifestyle…

FEAR OF FREEDOM

• When people say they feel fear of freedom means they aren’t able to be independent and they need to be under the command of someone.

When you give someone the power of choosing what they want, having a lot of different choices, they can have or feel fear of freedom. They usually think that the choice they have made isn’t the best option, and they will be less satisfied that if they would only have an option.

QUOTATIONS

Pope John Paul II said: Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

George Orwell, a British critic, said: Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Robert Green Ingersoll, who was a political leader, said that What light is to the eyes, what air is to the lungs, what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

This one is not a direct quotation of freedom, but talks about the liberty of the man, so we have thought it is interesting because we can say things indirectly with the same meaning of saying it directly, but causing other reactions to the receptors.

Asa Philip Randolph, who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, said this: Freedom is never given, it is won

We think he said that because being the leader of the Africans rights movement, he fought a lot to gain the equality with the Americans.

George Washington, the first President of the United States, defined liberty with a metaphor: Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a French philosopher of the Illustration, said that free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

This was a man who prompted the national sovereignty, so he was always advising people to take the right decision because they were going to be the ones with the political power.

(Ane E. and Maitane)

What is freedom?

Freedom is the right and capacity of people to determine their own actions,             in a community.

What is freedom for you?

Here to understand what freedom is for the people we have chosen a video in which each person says what freedom is for them.

Is our society free nowadays?

In the place where we live, Spain, there is freedom but this is not so in other countries.

For example;  in Arabia they aren´t free because their religion doesn´t accept it.

Some rules of Arabian religion for girls are:

women, when they get married, lose their rights and their surname disappears.

They have to wear a burka, because they are girls and is their obligation. In contrast, the men don’t have to wear this clothes.

They can´t study, they should stay at home.

Now, we are going to talk about the clothes in general that girls wear:

Niqab: This covers all the face except the eyes.

Hijab: This covers the hair and neck.

Burka: This covers all the body and it has like a window to see.

Chador: This clothes is weared by the married women. It covers the body except the face.

Dupatta: It covers the hair and the shoulders.

Finally to support these ideas we have looked for a piece of news which gives an example of exploitation of workers. They work long hours  and they don't earn much money. So the exploited workers have put in the labels of the clothes that they have made a message of auxilios , to people know what is happening in Primark factories.