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I wisst to discuss the following statement by Maine de Biran, which I think represents quite fairly his position on freedom:
Liberty or the idea of liberty, taken at its real source is nothing other than the feeling of our activity or power to act, to create the effort which constitutes the self.1
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Berry, C. (1972). Freedom and Determinism. In: Mays, W., Brown, S.C. (eds) Linguistic Analysis and Phenomenology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01215-2_2
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