The Inner Versus the Outer

Seth Godin: Liberty is not liberty in the sense that our actions are always going to attain our ends. There's freedom in figuring out what you want and then using hypothetical practical reasoning about how to get there, he says. The irony of a seeming paradox is that so she'll say we he can choose between blindly submitting to the spur with which necessity pricks him on from outside or else adapting himself to the inner representation of it that he forms in his own mind. He continues: "You could counter factually say you could let yourself be pushed on by the spur of necessity pricking from the outside"