click this doll house for more detail

click this doll house for more detail
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Freedom and Autonomy

To make oneself an artistic being in the world of phenomena, the self must create imperatives that dictate its own actions represented by the Will. To express the self's freedom to act in accordance to its own will is to have autonomy. Freedom and autonomy does not necessarily mean that it has limitless options in the world. The artistic being ought to create its own categories in which it must abide by in order to express its freedom in the phenomenal world. The Self knows its moral nature and its ability to abide by laws that are apparent through its sensation, but beyond this self-knowing lies other laws that have been created by the mind in order to make the self more free. It is to will the mind's world (a projection of the ideal Self) onto the extended self that relates its being to the objects and other particulars of the natural world. The Self, must identify with the minds own aesthetic categories and make it a reality in the world of its phenomena. How else can the artistic and authentic self come to be expressed in the extended world? This "will" must bring its own world-life-view into the world of phenomena through its expression in philosophic language. The self as artist.

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