We pick apart why “freedom” causes so many arguments by comparing the major definitions that shape politics, psychology, and moral philosophy. We end by naming what nearly all of them miss and why that gap pushes us toward a bigger story in part three.

• inheriting words without checking what we mean by them
• Isaiah Berlin’s negative liberty as non-interference
• Berlin’s positive liberty as self-governance and formation
• Carl Rogers on integration, self-awareness, and internal unfreedom
• Viktor Frankl on choosing your attitude under extreme constraint
• B.F. Skinner’s challenge that choice may be conditioning
• Sartre’s claim that we cannot stop choosing
• Aquinas on virtue, the good, and a will with direction
• Sen and Nussbaum on capabilities, poverty, and structural unfreedom
• Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms as a political synthesis
• the missing questions about God, purpose, and a larger story

So stay tuned for part three.

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Co-Host: Robert L. Inchausti, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of English at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and is the author of numerous books, including Subversive Orthodoxy, Thomas Merton's American Prophecy, The Spitwad Sutras, and Breaking the Cultural Trance. He is, among other things, a Thomas Merton authority, and editor of the Merton books Echoing Silence, Seeds, and The Pocket Thomas Merton. He's a lover of the literature of those who challenge the status quo in various ways, thus, he has had a lifelong fascination with the Beats.

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