Plato's Free Will

A professor at the University of Chicago gave a talk on free will. He argued that we have an incompatibles notion of free will, which is separate from our cultural and social circumstances. This conception of freedom pops up during times when people's political freedom is threatened,. So po afreedom just being the freedom from interference from a tyrant or some sort of totalitarian ruler. And so no matter what anybody throws at you, you're still free, and they can't touch you.