-Even though conditions such us lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.
-The last inner freedom cannot be lost. It is the spiritual freedom, which cannot be taken away, that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
- Nothingbutness: the theory that man is nothing but the result of biological, psychological and sociological conditions, or the product of heredity and environment. It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
- Pan-determinism: the view of man which disregards his capacity to take a stand toward any conditions whatsoever.
-Man doesn't simply
exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the
next moment.
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The basis for any
predictions would be represented by biological, psychological or sociological
conditions. Yet one of the main features of human existence is the capacity to
rise above such conditions, to grow beyond them. Man is capable of changing the
world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if
necessary.
-How can we dare to
predict the behavior of a man?
-Freedom is but the
negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness.
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a
Statue of Responsibility of the West Coast.
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