The Difference Between Liberty and Servitude

Mark Whitaker: The difference between liberty and servitude is in a sense, how do you treat the burden or the boundaries or the obstacles that necessity places in your way? He says this idea of treating your life as a series of problems to be solved made him think immediately of Descartes.Whitaker: She's very much like a woman of action, like a pragmatic thinker in that respect. And so there has to be something about the relationship of what kinds of necessities qualifies actual necessities," he says.